All Beginner articles – Page 33
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Starter/Beginner: Bingo: Time
A British English worksheet to play a game of bingo and to recognize the times of the day.
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Grammar: differences between could and can
An article discussing the differences between could and can when expressing possibility.
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Beginning reading and writing: Internalizing letters
Olha Madylus offers a selection of physical activities that help children remember the shape of letters they've been introduced to.
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Beginning reading and writing: Recognition games
Olha Madylus offers a selection of games that help children recognise and use the letters they've been introduced to, including beginning to write them.
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ArticleBeginning reading and writing: Learning words
Olha Madylus offers a selection of tips and activities to help your students begin to put letters together to form words.
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ArticleBeginning vocabulary: Presenting new vocabulary
Olha Madylus gives advice on how to present and practise vocabulary, using a practical staged approach.
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Beginning vocabulary: Pronunciation and drilling
Olha Madylus gives advice on how to get your young learners practising pronunciation, using techniques including choral repetition, songs and tongue twisters.
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Methodology: beginners in company
Advice and suggestions of how to begin a Business English course.
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ESOL beginner lessons: Comparatives and superlatives
A lesson by Chris Speck about describing people and places.
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ESOL beginner lessons: Joe and the thieves
This lesson aims to help students listen and recount a story, writing a story from memory using the past tense.
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ESOL beginner lessons: Pronunciation
This lesson aims to help students with pronunciation of past tense (-ed) words, adjectives ending in -ed.
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ArticleESOL beginner lessons: will and going to
This lesson aims to help students understand the difference between the constructions will and going to.
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Battleships
A British English worksheet to find hidden words or sentences by naming numbered squares on a grid.
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Teaching toolJazz Chants: I Can Play Basketball
Use this useful jazz chant to boost your students' pronunctiation and intonation.
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Imaginative materials: teaching with simple props: bags
Teachers and learners carry books and equipment to their lessons in a variety of smart or scruffy bags. Here are some ways you could make use of these unassuming objects in class.
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General: are parrots back in fashion?
Current methodology seems to pay far less attention to memorising and remembering activities than more traditional teaching approaches. Here are a few practical ideas for being creatively unfashionable.
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Grammar and vocabulary: techniques for autonomous vocabulary learning
An article highlighting useful techniques for autonomous vocabulary learning.
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ArticleImaginative materials: teaching with authentic materials
Catalogues, shop brochures and leaflets are a type of authentic material often available free and in quantity. Here are some ideas for using these, whether printed in English or another language.
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ESOL: Learning styles diagnostic assessment
To assess Entry 1 learners learning styles: visual / auditory / kinaesthetic / independent.