All Beginner articles – Page 27

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Imaginative materials: teaching with newspapers

Teachers rarely have access to whole class sets of newspapers. Here are six ideas for things you can do using a single copy of a newspaper.

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Secret identities

A British English worksheet to write the names of famous people using numbers in place of letters of the alphabet. To work out names according to a code by doing a running dictation.

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Imaginative materials: treasure hunting

How could you create an exciting treasure hunt puzzle for your students? Here are ideas for two kinds of game – a basic chain of clues and letterboxing.

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How many people can…?

A British English worksheet to find out what people in the class can do by asking and answering questions.

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On holiday

A British English worksheet to predict which activities a partner likes or doesn't like doing on holiday and to find out how many predictions were right.

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Sentences in a hat

A British English worksheet to complete unfinished sentences and to pick sentences out of a hat and find out who wrote them by asking questions.

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Methodology: individualizing in groups

An article offering suggestions and advice on how to individualize learning within a group.

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Tell your group

A British English worksheet to play a board game to practise past simple regular verbs.

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Lesson Share: Grammar: Can you do it?

Lindsay Clandfield's winning lesson practises the modal verb can (ability) using a game of questions.

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Grammar: 'unless' and 'if'

An article explaining the difference in meaning between if and unless in conditional sentences.

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Grammar: 'them' and 'they'

An explanation of the use of them and they in different contexts.

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Grammar: modal verbs may and might

An article explaining the difference between the modal verbs may and might.

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Grammar: the verb 'to be'

A discussion answer to the question "what is the verb 'to be'?"

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Grammar: regular and irregular verbs

Practical suggestions for teaching regular and irregular verbs.

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Grammar: teaching the modals 'ought to', 'should', 'must' and 'have to'.

Suggestions for teaching the modals ought to, should, must and have to when talking about suggestion or advice.

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Grammar: practising the present and past simple tenses

Imaginative suggestions for teaching the present and past simple tenses to children.

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Grammar: reporting verb patterns

A discussion and teaching suggestions for reporting verb patterns.

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Methodology: the grammar translation method

A discussion on the use of the grammar translation method in English teaching.

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Grammar and vocabulary: teaching and learning idioms

A discussion and useful techniques for learning and teaching idioms.

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Grammar: reviewing the present simple

Present simple for habits and routines is a frequently taught item. Here are some new ways of teaching these familiar items.