All Beginner articles – Page 33

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Skills: telephoning in English

For many learners using the telephone in English is a particularly nerve-wracking experience. As well as all the standard "telephone phrases" learners need strategies for getting a failing interaction to work. Here are some ideas for confidence-building in class.

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Skills: teaching English intonation

Many teachers find intonation difficult to teach. As a result they may avoid it. But intonation can be fun to work with - and it can make other language areas such as grammar easier to teach. Here are some ideas.

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Skills: teaching listening in English

Modern coursebooks provide some excellent recorded material, but it can be exciting to supplement this with more unusual sources of listening work. Here are some ideas.

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Grammar and vocabulary: seven ways to help students enjoy grammar

Seven suggestions of ways to help students enjoy grammar.

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Minimal resources: The immediate environment

Scott Thornbury offers some valuable tips and ideas for using your immediate environment to make imaginative language lessons.

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Methodology: fossilized errors

Suggestions to help students overcome fossilized errors.

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ESOL support: IT in ESOL

Tips and suggestions for using IT in the ESOL classroom.

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Skills: responding to real-life events

When there is a tragic event in the world teachers often feel the need to address it in some way in classroom time. Finding a way to do this appropriately and sensitively can sometimes be hard. Help is here.

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Minimal resources: Everyday objects

Jonathan Marks gives us some ideas for activities that make use of everyday objects that people carry around with them.

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Everything we know

A British English worksheet to play a board game by giving personal information about one another.

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Pronunciation exercises: Starter/beginner

Pronunciation exercises for zero beginner and false beginner students.

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Imaginative materials: fab phone features

Mobile phones have many features and can provide great opportunities for activities. Here are a few ideas to get the most out mobiles in lessons.

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True or false?

A British English worksheet to write true and false sentences about likes and dislikes and to guess a partner's true and false sentences.

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Young learner topics: The fantastic fortune teller game

This fun game for children, which includes instructions for making and playing the game, helps with the teaching of animal names and numbers.

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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.

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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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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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Teaching writing: the forgotten skill

Advice and suggestions about teaching writing in the English classroom.

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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.