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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?

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Mixed-ability teens: Graded dictation

Techniques for dealing with mixed ability students: graded dictation.

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Teenagers: Warmers: Jokes – a silly dictation

A fun way to encourage thinking skills and allow students to process the language.

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Lesson Share: Exchanging information: 'Dicey' questions

Students roll the dice to find out which question word to use.

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Imaginative materials: teaching with simple props: dice

Some of the most useful teaching props are the simplest. Most ELT teachers will have used dice at some time, perhaps when groups are playing a board game. Here are three ideas for more unusual uses of dice in class.

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Lesson Share: Pictures: Dialogue in music

This simple activity uses a piece of instrumental music to create a dialogue.

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Methodology: writing with linking devices: 'yet'

An article discussing the use of linking devices such as 'yet'

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Professional development: reflective teaching

A discussion on ways to improve teaching through systematic inquiry.

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Dream destinations

An American English worksheet to find the person who has the other half of your picture by describing your own picture. To write a description of a place.

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Dream destinations

A British English worksheet to find the person who has the other half of your picture by describing your own picture. To write a description of a place.

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Young designer of the year

A great project for the artistic, creative students in your class.

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Lesson Share: Desert islands

In her first diary entry, teacher Vicky Turner is pleased with her drawing skills as well as being surprised by students' pronunciation.

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Desert island discs

A project based on the famous British radio programme Desert Island Discs.

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Describing a process

Students produce a description of the production process or of part of the production process.

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IELTS: Describing tables

The aim of this exercise is to help students extract information from data presented in a table.

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IELTS: Describing a sequence of events or a process

The aim of this exercise is to help students describe a sequence of events in the past and describe a process using the present simple.

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Exams: Describing how something works

Preparing students for the writing part 1 of the Academic IELTS exam.

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IELTS: Describing maps - teacher's notes

The aim of this exercise is to help students describe maps.

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IELTS: Describing tables - teacher's notes

The aim of this exercise is to help students extract information from data presented in a table.

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Describing performance

To interpret charts and graphs using the past simple and the present continuous to describe trends.