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Lesson Share: Professional development: preparing for DELTA

Are you thinking of taking your teaching career to the next level? Adrian Tennant answers a question on how to prepare for the DELTA course.

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B2 Business Vantage: Reading: Part 1

An article by Russell Whitehead about the Cambridge English B2 Business Vantage exam reading component part 1.

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Classroom management: Staging fluency activities

Maria Leedham suggests some practical steps for maximizing the participation of all students during speaking lessons.

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TKT Tip 03: Module 2 – Lesson planning

Jim Scrivener looks in detail at a question from Module 2 of the TKT – Lesson planning.

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Genetically modified?

According to Wikipedia (so it must be true), a grammatical modifier is "an adjective or adverb that changes the meaning of a noun, pronoun or verb". Strange, that. Because to the vast majority of the British business community it’s a word that changes absolutely nothing at all.

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The corpus principle – Songs

Jamie Keddie looks at how we can harness popular technologies, such as media players or lyric search sites, to illustrate language points in the classroom.

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Lesson Share: Methodology: Not too heavy with Cambridge First

Russell Whitehead answers a question on how to engage students more in Cambridge First lessons.

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Vocabulary matters: What do words mean?

This article takes a look at the different aspects of ‘knowing’ a word, starting with a look at some of the things we need to know about a word in order to really understand it and finishing with a few practical activities.

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What's in a word?

Michael Hoey, chief adviser on the Macmillan Dictionary of English for Advanced Learners, considers the consequences of changes in lexicography.

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Get a slimmer model

We expect the gossip columns to be filled with celebrity split-ups, but who’d have thought the ELT columns would be full of the same thing? No jilted supermodels in our case, of course. It’s the native-speaker model we’re ditching for a slimmer, sexier substitute. And her name is lingua franca.

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The corpus principle: Introduction to corpora

In this six-part series, Jamie Keddie asks, 'What is a corpus?' and invites us to think about how we might use corpora in the classroom.

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Word of the week: Henchman

Ever encountered any burly henchmen? Tim Bowen explains how the meaning of this word has come a long way from its original association with horses.

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TKT Tip 02: Module 1 – Writing subskills

Jim Scrivener looks in detail at a question from Module 1 of the TKT – Language and background to language learning and teaching.

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Reading matters: Reading strategies

This article looks at a variety of different strategies and examines why, when and how you might use each of them to develop your students' reading skills.

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Lesson Share: Methodology: Project work

Are you teaching in a summer school this year? Lindsay Clandfield answers a question about the challenges of setting up effective project work and getting young learners interested in it.

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Writing matters: Creative writing

In this article we take a look at what is meant by 'creative writing' and why it can be a useful tool in helping improve our students’ writing skills and overall level of English.

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Word of the week: Quack

If it looks like a duck and quacks like a duck, it must be a duck - or could you be dealing with a 'quack'? Find out by reading this Word of the week by Tim Bowen.

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Writing matters: Developing accuracy

Accuracy in written work is important, but how can we help our students to become accurate writers? In this article, Adrian Tennant tries to answer this question and provides some practical activities that focus on accuracy.

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Methodology: Teaching with video

Have you had some interesting experiences when attempting to integrate video into your lessons? Jamie Keddie answers a question on how to get the most out of film-related resources.

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TKT Tip 01: Module 1 – Types of nouns

Jim Scrivener looks in detail at a question from Module 1 of TKT – Language and background to language learning and teaching.