All articles by Miles Craven
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Teaching toolJazz Chants: These Are My Blue Jeans
Use this useful jazz chant to boost your students' pronunctiation and intonation.
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ArticleListening skills: Top Tips
Miles Craven offers some useful techniques to use when teaching listening.
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Listening to the news
Why not tell your students to listen to the news? It’s a great way to practice authentic listening. They can listen on the radio, on television, or on the internet. Miles Craven presents tips and tricks for using the news in class.
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Topic-based lessons
A series of topic-based listening lesson ideas from Miles Craven with an emphasis on authentic, real-world listening, using both native and non-native speaker accents.
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Pronunciation exercises: Pre-intermediate
A selection of pronunciation exercises for pre-intermediate students.
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ArticlePronunciation exercises: Starter/beginner
Pronunciation exercises for zero beginner and false beginner students.
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Teaching toolJazz Chants: I Do Karaoke On Wednesdays
Use this useful jazz chant to boost your students' pronunctiation and intonation.
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ArticleListening skills lesson plans: Catching up on news
Listening for specific information, inferring relationships and inferring meaning.
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Listening Skills: A Brief Guide
A short, handy guide to the skills students need to practice to become better listeners.
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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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Listening skills lesson plans: Radio and television advertisements
Listening for specific information and recognising context.
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ArticleListening skills lesson plans: Talking about your family
Listening for specific information, listening for details and recognising context.
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Listening skills lesson plans: Talking about first dates
Listening for details and listening for specific information.
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Listening skills lesson plans: Talking about birthdays
Listening for details and listening for specific information
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Listening skills lesson plans: Talking about people
Listening for specific information and listening for details
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Jazz chants 9: I'll have soup please
Jazz chants to use in class with pre-intermediate students.
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ArticleMinimal resources: 8 fun intermediate and above activities
Miles Craven provides some fun and valuable ideas for teaching intermediate and above students with minimal resources.