All Pre-Intermediate articles – Page 71
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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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Functional language: Giving a compliment
Reviewing and extending positive adjectives, giving and receiving compliments. Students discuss when it is appropriate to give compliments in their culture.
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Lesson Share: Energizers: More complex 'Simon Says'
A higher level adaptation of a well-known game.
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Complete the titles
A British English worksheet to use the words in the boxes to complete the titles of the films.
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Complete the jokes
This worksheet contains six jokes to complete by filling in the missing words and punchline, and a host of other jokes and proverbs to read and say.
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Grammar: two-syllable comparatives
An article discussing the usage of comparative and superlative forms of two-syllable adjectives.
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Grammar: teaching comparatives in English
Coursebook lessons on comparative forms often ask students to make random comparisons between things for no obvious reason. Here are some typical real-life contexts when we are genuinely likely to compare.
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Marketing: Company websites
Students expand and practise the vocabulary associated with corporate websites
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Company profile
To talk about the various parts of a large company; its divisions, subsidiaries, etc.
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Company structure
To talk about company organization, people's responsibilities and who they report to.
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Methodology: community language learning
An explanation and advice on how to use the Community Language Learning method.
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Communication skills
To discuss techniques for giving a presentation, chairing a meeting and writing a report.
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Lesson Share: Miscellaneous: When friends come to visit
If you teach English as a foreign language and are lucky enough to have a friend from home visit you, why not use them as a class resource?
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Lesson Share: Gaps and guessing: Telephone collocations
Here is a warmer or filler I've used for telephoning in business English.
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Grammar and vocabulary: teaching students collocations
A discussion and explanation of collocations and practical suggestions for teaching them.
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General: teaching idioms and collocations
Break away from predictable coursebook topics! How about basing a whole morning round a single word? These ideas would work for many items.
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Professional development: collaborative teaching in EFL/ ESOL
An article about developing different mechanisms of peer support.