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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ArticleSkills: 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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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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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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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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Teaching toolJazz 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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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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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.