All Beginner articles – Page 31

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Professional development: reflective teaching

A discussion on ways to improve teaching through systematic inquiry.

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Methodology: dealing with shy students

An article offering advice on how to deal with shy students.

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General: holiday English courses

Many teachers do summer work teaching on short intensive courses. Such courses often have more of a holiday atmosphere than normal classes and teachers may look for jollier, summery activities.

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General: teaching with coursebooks

If your relationship with your coursebook is going a little stale, here are a baker’s dozen of ideas to inspire and provoke you.

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General: controlling lesson time

It can feel unsatisfactory to suddenly rush an activity at the end of a lesson. Here are some strategies for taking control of time and shortening over-long stages.

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Continuous Professional Development

A discussion on ways to maintain continuous professional development.

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Grammar and vocabulary: learning vocabulary - connecting form and meaning

A discussion on learning vocabulary and the difficulties of connecting form and meaning.

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Professional development: teacher development and confidence

Advice and suggestions on how teachers can improve their personal development and confidence.

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Grammar: teaching conditionals

An article talking about confusion with conditionals and the phrasal verb to put off.

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Grammar: teaching conditionals

Conditional structures that begin If + present tense offer lots of possibilities for interesting tasks, presentations or practice activities. Here are a few ideas.

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Vocabulary: concord: my favourite fruit is/ are....

An explanation and advice on teaching subject - verb agreement.

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Imaginative materials: using computers to teach English

Mulitmedia presentation programs (e.g. Microsoft PowerPoint) are a good way of storing and showing images and text in unusual ways – as a high-tech slide show. Here are some teaching ideas, all suitable for classrooms with only a single computer.

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Grammar: two-syllable comparatives

An article discussing the usage of comparative and superlative forms of two-syllable adjectives.

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Grammar: teaching comparatives in English

Coursebook lessons on comparative forms often ask students to make random comparisons between things for no obvious reason. Here are some typical real-life contexts when we are genuinely likely to compare.

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Methodology: community language learning

An explanation and advice on how to use the Community Language Learning method.

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Grammar and vocabulary: teaching students collocations

A discussion and explanation of collocations and practical suggestions for teaching them.

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General: teaching idioms and collocations

Break away from predictable coursebook topics! How about basing a whole morning round a single word? These ideas would work for many items.

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Professional development: collaborative teaching in EFL/ ESOL

An article about developing different mechanisms of peer support.

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Methodology: feedback in communicative classrooms

Advice on giving appropriate oral feedback in communicative classrooms.

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Methodology: surviving classroom observations

Advice on how to survive classroom observations.