All Elementary articles – Page 53

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Grammar: around town: vocabulary, prepositions and directions

Teachers often make use of maps or real information about the town/district students are studying in when teaching prepositions, giving directions or town vocabulary. Here are a few ideas that might help add a spark to those lessons

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Methodology: seating arrangements

Advice and suggestions of how to overcome the problem of restricted seating arrangements.

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Article: Explaining the metaphor

An article on approaches to teaching metaphors.

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Grammar: the article in English

An article discussing the rules of the definite article.

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Skills: assessing speaking skills

Teachers are often asked to evaluate learner progress during courses, maybe by preparing progress tests. Teachers often feel unsure as to the best way to do this. Here are some ideas.

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ESOL: Learning styles diagnostic assessment

To assess Entry 1 learners learning styles: visual / auditory / kinaesthetic / independent.

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Imaginative 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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Grammar and vocabulary: techniques for autonomous vocabulary learning

An article highlighting useful techniques for autonomous vocabulary learning.

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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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Verb backgammon

A British English worksheet to use the backgammon pieces to change each short word into a verb.

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Badges

A British English worksheet to assemble the badges to make phrases associated with the pictures.

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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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Reading lesson plans: Bamboo

Students complete a series of activities based on a text about bamboo.

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Is there a bank?

An American English worksheet to practice asking and answering questions about places and to practice reading a map.

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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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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: will and going to

This lesson aims to help students understand the difference between the constructions will and going to.

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Methodology: beginners in company

Advice and suggestions of how to begin a Business English course.

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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.