All Pre-Intermediate articles – Page 69
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Lesson Share: Teenagers: Jokes (a silly dictation)
This warmer/lesson filler exercise is a missing word dictation which will get students laughing.
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Skills: dictation for teaching English
Traditional dictation - where the teacher reads a text aloud and the learners must write it down accurately - is often quite unpopular with learners. It can feel like an unfair test. Could we make it more enjoyable and useful?
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Methodology: using dictation in English language teaching
An article discussing the role of dictation in English language teaching.
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Lesson Share: Exchanging information: 'Dicey' questions
Students roll the dice to find out which question word to use.
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Imaginative materials: teaching with simple props: dice
Some of the most useful teaching props are the simplest. Most ELT teachers will have used dice at some time, perhaps when groups are playing a board game. Here are three ideas for more unusual uses of dice in class.
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Lesson Share: Pictures: Dialogue in music
This simple activity uses a piece of instrumental music to create a dialogue.
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Methodology: writing with linking devices: 'yet'
An article discussing the use of linking devices such as 'yet'
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Professional development: reflective teaching
A discussion on ways to improve teaching through systematic inquiry.
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Describing a process
Students produce a description of the production process or of part of the production process.
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IELTS: Describing tables
The aim of this exercise is to help students extract information from data presented in a table.
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ArticleIELTS: Describing a sequence of events or a process
The aim of this exercise is to help students describe a sequence of events in the past and describe a process using the present simple.
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IELTS: Describing tables - teacher's notes
The aim of this exercise is to help students extract information from data presented in a table.
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Describing performance
To interpret charts and graphs using the past simple and the present continuous to describe trends.
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Describing a product
To apply adjectives to different products to describe their advantages and disadvantages.
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Lesson Share: Team games: Vocabulary definitions game
This game is a good way of revising vocabulary from the previous lesson.
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True and false definitions
A British English worksheet to play a game in teams, guessing correct definitions and writing false definitions for words.
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True and false definitions
An American English worksheet to play a game in teams, guessing correct definitions and writing false definitions for words.
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Lesson Share: Grammar: Making instant decisions
Introduce 'will' or 'won't' for instant decisions; provide fluency practice using 'will' or 'won't'.
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Lesson Share: Debates: Where to sit
The class attempts to reach a consensus on where everyone should sit.
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Methodology: dealing with shy students
An article offering advice on how to deal with shy students.