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Imaginative materials: teaching resources: sound effects
Sound-effect CDs are an exciting teaching resource. These are recordings that have hardly any words on - but instead contain a sequence of noises such as crashes, bumps, bangs, whistles, screams etc. Here are some ideas for using sound-effects in the classroom.
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Skills: teaching resources: sound effects
Sound-effect CDs are an exciting teaching resource. These are recordings that have hardly any words on - but instead contain a sequence of noises such as crashes, bumps, bangs, whistles, screams etc. Here are some ideas for using sound-effects in the classroom.
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Minimal resources: Drilling
Philip Kerr gives us some useful tips and ideas for using drilling in the classroom.
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Lesson Share: Drama: Mime, draw or explain
A short drama activity for reviewing vocabulary..
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Lesson Share: Drama: The moving story
This activity is an effective way of involving students directly in the story and also of presenting and practising new items of vocabulary.
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Students who don't want to write
An article discussing ways to overcome the problem of students who don't want to write.
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Don't say it!
An American English worksheet to play a team game by making up definitions and guessing words.
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Lesson Share: Team games: The guide dog
This activity works well as a warmer and is also good for practising giving and understanding instructions.
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Lesson Share: Discussions: What's in a name?
Most people have a story associated with their name.
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Lesson Share: Discussions: New things
Students discuss six new things they have done since arriving in this country/over the last year.
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Lesson Share: Discussions: What I noticed
Students discuss ten things they saw, heard, felt or smelled on their way to the lesson today.
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Lesson Share: Discussions: Number talk
This warmer has a focus on numbers, but is a great skill for learners of all levels and subjects.
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Skills: whole-class discussions in English
Have you ever tried a whole-class discussion and, instead of speaking to each other, the learners direct all comments to you? How can you get more student-student interaction in such activities?
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Minimal resources: Role-plays and discussion
Scott Thornbury gives us some imaginative tips and ideas for using role-plays in lessons.
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Lesson Share: Teenagers: Jokes (a silly dictation)
This warmer/lesson filler exercise is a missing word dictation which will get students laughing.
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Skills: dictation for teaching English
Traditional dictation - where the teacher reads a text aloud and the learners must write it down accurately - is often quite unpopular with learners. It can feel like an unfair test. Could we make it more enjoyable and useful?