All Article articles – Page 47
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Speaking matters: Problem-solving
This article looks at problem-solving activities and what they are like. It covers how to set them up, why it's good to use them, the disadvantages and what you should do after the activity.
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Speaking matters: Role-play
In this article we look at role-play. The article discusses why, when and how to use role-play in your classes. The article rounds off with examples of role-plays as well as a link to another article.
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Business English in HR
This article gives an overview of teaching English for human resource professionals. It is linked to a ‘think about’ task on planning a sequence of lessons.
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ArticleTeaching Practice
This indispensable classic helps you cope with different teaching scenarios when you are preparing to become a teacher of English or if you are preparing others to become English teachers.
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ArticleLearning Teaching
The revised and extended edition of the ever-popular 1994 edition addresses the most important, challenging and interesting situations of the English classroom and provides assistance to coping with them.
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Sound Foundations
This new and updated edition is a real help for teachers to feel comfortable when speaking and teaching pronunciation. The CD contains demonstrations of the activities with author's commentaries.
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Children Learning English
Children Learning English reveals the special features of teaching foreign languages to young learners. It is an inspiring read and a useful practical guide in a single volume.
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ArticleSpeaking matters: Pairwork
Adrian Tennant gives an introduction to using pairwork for teaching speaking skills.
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ArticleTeaching approaches
This article by Olha Madylus contains advice and suggestions for activities that can be used to teach general topics.
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Business teaching approaches: Role-play and simulations
Chris Barwood explains how simulations can be used as an effective teaching technique in business English classes, and offers a sample lesson plan that simulates a business meeting.
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Subjects and objects in English - article
An article by Kerry Maxwell and Lindsay Clandfield on the sometimes complex issue of teaching subjects and objects in English.
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Creating a CV
It is impossible to overstate the importance of creating a good CV. After all, your CV is, in theory, your passport to a job – a new job, a better job, a more rewarding job, a more stimulating job. Here are some useful tips to get you started.
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ArticleGrammar teaching: Task-based grammar teaching
Lindsay Clandfield discusses task-based grammar teaching and provides a lesson plan based on this methodology which teaches the grammar point used to.
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Teenagers: Preparing teenagers for the exam: Speaking
This section contains useful suggestions for preparing teenagers for speaking components in the exam.
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IELTS: Structuring an essay
An integrated skills lesson with the overall aim of preparing students to write an essay on the issue of public transport/car ownership.
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Making proposals to ELT publishers
You want to break into materials writing for ELT, but you have no contacts. One way to get your name and materials known is to send an unsolicited proposal to an ELT publisher. This can show what your ideas about teaching and learning are and what a great writer of ...
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ArticleGrammar teaching: The discovery technique
Adrian Tennant discusses how to use the discovery technique to teach grammar and gives an activity idea for teaching the third conditional using this method.
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English for specific purposes: Conversational feedback – effective error correction
Colin Barnett offers suggestions for effective error correction and language improvement in one-to-one classes.