All Beginner articles – Page 28

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Grammar: an 'A' or 'The'

Choosing the correct article - “a” “an” “the” or Ø (zero article) – is, for many students, an ongoing problem all the way from beginner to advanced classes. Here are a few quick ideas for practising them at lower levels.

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Teenagers: Grammar: Grammar practice

Some useful ideas to get your students to practise their grammar.

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Skills: graded readers

Reading a novel is essentially a private, personal activity – but it can still provide useful classroom work . Here are some ideas for working with graded readers in class.

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General: using translation

There is a great deal of useful awareness-raising when learners compare English with their own tongue. Here are four great translation games - and they don’t even require you to speak the other language!

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General: making things last

Ever run out of things to do five minutes before the end of class? There are some fairly simple tricks for usefully extending an activity – so that things just beautifully fall into place.

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General: pairing and grouping students

With current teaching methodology teachers are constantly needing to get students into pairs or small groups. A bit of variety can sometimes raise a smile and can also help you to mix up groupings a little.

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General: planning lessons

Remember, a plan is not a route-map of what must happen in class, it is only your informed setting-up of some possibilities. Here are a few ideas for alternative plans:

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General: setting homework

Tired of setting the usual homework tasks? Here are 18 unusual ideas for "homedo" tasks.

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Skills: Glorious gap-fills

There seem to be an awful lot of gap-fill exercises in course books nowadays. And sometimes they can be rather dreary for students and teacher alike. Well, you could try some of these ideas.

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Imaginative materials: teaching with party games

In many parts of the world the end of the year is the season for parties. And in class, the last lesson of the year often has a party atmosphere. So, to help things go with a swing, here are three classic party games adapted to be a little more ...

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Teenagers: Grammar: Grammar games

Some games to help teach grammar to teenagers and young learners.

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Speaking: Sentence structure game

A card game for revising vocabulary, sentence structure and word order.

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Lesson Share: Miscellaneous: The smell game

I call it the 'smell game' but it also introduces how to describe tastes.

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Yes/no game

A British English worksheet to write information about people and to ask and answer questions in order to guess who the people are.

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Grammar: the syntactic function of -ing forms

An article discussing the syntactic function of -ing forms.

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Grammar: -ing forms and post modification

An article discussing -ing forms and post modification.

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Teaching writing: the forgotten skill

Advice and suggestions about teaching writing in the English classroom.

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General: the first lesson of the year

Even if the teacher and class have all worked together before, it is still useful to have activities to welcome everyone back and mark the start of the new year.

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Find out

A British English worksheet to find out information about members of the class by asking and answering questions.

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Favourites

A British English worksheet to write about favourite things and to find people in the class with the same favourite things.