All Professional Development articles – Page 16
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ArticleSurvival Guide: First classes
Prepare yourself for an influx of new students with twenty exciting activities to kick off the new term in style.
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How to write vocabulary activities
In an extract from ELT Teacher2Writer’s training module, Philip Kerr offers some helpful tips on how to go about writing vocabulary activities, considering word selection, word frequency and grouping vocabulary items.
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Tuk Tuk Travels: Entry 10: Cambodia
In their tenth travelogue, Rich and Nick journey to Cambodia where they meet Sokha, a survivor of the Khmer Rouge regime and founder of the Center for Children’s Happiness, an organization offering children an education and a chance for success.
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Your English: Collocations: frank
Tim Bowen offers up an admirably frank discussion in this week’s set of collocations.
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Your English: Idioms: worse
Feeling the worse for wear? You could do worse than catch up with Tim Bowen’s newest selection of idioms!
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Your English: Phrasal verbs: wipe
Tim Bowen wipes out confusion with his latest article on phrasal verbs.
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Your English: Word grammar: snap
Come on. Snap to it! Read Tim Bowen’s latest musings on word grammar!
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Survival Guide: Surviving the job interview
Here we offer support in preparing for a job interview, including practical advice, questions you wished you’d asked and, importantly, what NOT to say!
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Macmillan Education Innovative Writing Award: Q&A with Teresa Ting
The winner of the 2013 Macmillan Education Innovative Writing Award at the British Council ELTons, Teresa Ting, tells us about her work, her motivations and the importance of winning the award.
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Tuk Tuk Travels: Entry 9: Grub's up
In their ninth travelogue, our tuk tuk travellers navigate their way through South East Asia and all its culinary delights. In Laos they meet Chanhpheng, a young teacher from Vientiane who founded an education program for disabled women, run by disabled women.
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Your English: Collocations: footing
Are we all on an equal footing when it comes to collocations? Here’s Tim Bowen with his feet firmly on the ground.
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Your English: Idioms: wits
Do idioms frighten you out of your wits? Tim Bowen’s razor-sharp article is here to save the day.
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Your English: Phrasal verbs: walk
Tim Bowen is not one to walk out when it comes to phrasal verbs. Don’t walk off before you’ve finished reading this article!
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Your English: Word grammar: like
If you’d just, like, give him a chance, Tim Bowen will explain a whole lot of word grammar to the likes of us.
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Your English: Collocations: fog
Have you ever been caught in dense fog? Tim Bowen gets meteorological.
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Survival Guide: Teaching under the influence
Lindsay Clandfield and Duncan Foord ask you to consider what impact different teaching methods have had on your teaching and learning and present a brief history of EFL.
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How to become a writer
In an extract from ELT Teacher2Writer’s training module, Janet Aitchison explains how the bookselling business works and how the digitization of content is changing the traditional business model.
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Tuk Tuk Travels: Entry 8: And on to Nepal
In their eighth travelogue, Rich and Nick meet Indira, one of the founders of an organization aimed at transforming the lives of victims of trafficking and tackling the exploitation of women.
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Your English: Idioms: weight
Are you worried? Never fear, Tim Bowen is here to take the weight off your mind with his latest explanation of idioms.
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Your English: Phrasal verbs: turn (3)
Confused by phrasal verbs? Then turn to Tim Bowen for help.