All articles by Chris Speck

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Minimal resources: Pub quiz

Create a pub quiz with your class

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ESOL support: IT in ESOL

Tips and suggestions for using IT in the ESOL classroom.

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ESOL support: Teaching tips

Chris Speck offers a heap of useful suggestions on how teachers can support ESOL students.

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Cambridge ESOL: Skills for Life: Using catalogues

This lesson aims to help students to use an index, scan, locate information, read and write reference numbers.

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Cambridge ESOL: Skills for Life: Computers

This lesson aims to help students learn vocabulary associated with computers.

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Cambridge ESOL: Skills for Life: Contract of employment

This lesson aims to help students with reading and the language of contracts.

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Cambridge ESOL: Skills for Life: Form filling

This lesson aims to help students with form filling.

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Cambridge ESOL: Skills for Life: Signs

This lesson aims to help students learn the formal language used in signs.

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Cambridge ESOL: Skills for Life: Supermarkets and sales

This lesson aims to help students learn comparatives and superlatives by comparing prices and supermarkets.

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Cambridge ESOL: Skills for Life: Text messages

This lesson aims to help students understand abbreviations commonly used in text messages.

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Cambridge ESOL: Skills for Life: Using the Yellow Pages

This lesson aims to help students practice a number of situations using the Yellow Pages to locate information.

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Cambridge ESOL: Skills for Life: Calendars and dates

This lesson aims to help students with days, months, numbers and ordinals.

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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 poor man

This lesson aims to help students make simple present tense questions (not in the 3rd person).

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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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Cambridge ESOL: Skills for Life: Bad CV

This lesson aims to help students read CVs to obtain meaning and write their own CV.

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ESOL support: Questions and answers

Chris Speck gives tips and advice on how to teach ESOL adults to read and write.

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Cambridge ESOL: Skills for Life: Alphabet and telephone books

This lesson aims to help students put words in alphabetical order and locate names.