All Beginner articles – Page 33
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Professional development: teachers using broken English
Advice on how to tackle the problem of teachers using broken English.
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Imaginative materials: board games for teaching English
Learners are often familiar with popular board games. Inventing new games (or adapting familiar games) can often produce materials that motivate students to talk and practise language.
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Lesson Share: Children: Mr Lemon has a birthday party
To recycle colours, clothes, introductions, age, abilities, likes, dislikes, set expressions (here you are, thank you, you're welcome).
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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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Beginning 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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Beginning 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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ESOL 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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Jazz 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.