All Intermediate articles – Page 94
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ArticleGeneral: teaching with coursebooks
If your relationship with your coursebook is going a little stale, here are a baker’s dozen of ideas to inspire and provoke you.
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Lesson Share: Energizers: Crazy counts
Here's a super-simple way to review numbers. It works nicely at the beginning of class, even while students are entering the classroom.
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Lesson Share: Grammar: Countable vs uncountable nouns
To develop countable and uncountable nouns along with the structures: there is / there aren't / there should be. The roleplay focuses on shopping and the language needed for complaining.
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Cooperative crossword
An American English worksheet to practice defining and describing places in the city.
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General: controlling lesson time
It can feel unsatisfactory to suddenly rush an activity at the end of a lesson. Here are some strategies for taking control of time and shortening over-long stages.
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Exchanging contracts
An American English worksheet to write an imaginary contract for teachers.
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Exchanging contracts
A British English worksheet to write an imaginary contract for teachers.
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Grammar: Present perfect continuous game
Students use the present perfect continuous in a game based on jobs.
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ArticleContinuous Professional Development
A discussion on ways to maintain continuous professional development.
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Lesson Share: Pre-reading: Making connections
A fun and useful activity where students are encouraged to predict the story they are going to read.
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Lesson Share: Pre-reading: What is the connection?
Learners have to find the connection that links words together in this pre-reading exercise.
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Grammar and vocabulary: learning vocabulary - connecting form and meaning
A discussion on learning vocabulary and the difficulties of connecting form and meaning.
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Professional development: teacher development and confidence
Advice and suggestions on how teachers can improve their personal development and confidence.
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Grammar: teaching conditionals
An article talking about confusion with conditionals and the phrasal verb to put off.
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Grammar: teaching conditionals
Conditional structures that begin If + present tense offer lots of possibilities for interesting tasks, presentations or practice activities. Here are a few ideas.
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Vocabulary: concord: my favourite fruit is/ are....
An explanation and advice on teaching subject - verb agreement.
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Imaginative materials: using computers to teach English
Mulitmedia presentation programs (e.g. Microsoft PowerPoint) are a good way of storing and showing images and text in unusual ways – as a high-tech slide show. Here are some teaching ideas, all suitable for classrooms with only a single computer.
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Teenagers: Writing: Linking and structuring compositions
Using pictures to focus on a logical sequence of events.
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Lesson Share: Energizers: More complex 'Simon Says'
A higher level adaptation of a well-known game.