All Teaching Notes articles – Page 24
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Minimal resources: Teaching vocabulary
Adrian Tennant gives us some useful tips and ideas for teaching vocabulary with minimal resources.
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Who's at the meeting?
To exchange basic information about a group of participants at an international meeting.
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A manufacturing process
To describe a manufacturing process and decide on the layout of a manufacturing plant.
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Project management
In this lesson by Barney Barrett, students examine, discuss and use the language of project planning and management applied to an ongoing project at the learner’s company.
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Skills: longer reads
Students who do a lot of extensive reading in English seem to make substantial progress. Here are some general ideas for starting to use longer texts.
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Phrasal verbs: Teaching phrasal verbs using a literary text
Using authentic texts can be a motivating way to teach phrasal verbs. This lesson plan presents eight new phrasal verbs using a literary text as a starting point. The learners deduce the meaning of the phrasal verbs from their context, and then write a follow up story using more new phrasal verbs.
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Do you like working under pressure?
To speak about work skills and preferences and choose suitable jobs.
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One-to-one methodology: Six practical tips for longer lessons
Jim Scrivener offers six useful teaching tips to prevent 'teacher burnout' during longer one-to-one classes.
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One-to-one lessons: Read and report
In this lesson, Lindsay Clandfield provides tips and ideas for using a reading text with a one-to-one student.
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One-to-one lessons: Think of someone who …
In this lesson, Lindsay Clandfield provides tips and ideas for adapting the classic 'Find someone who ...' activity for a one-to-one class.
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The last word
A British English worksheet to find the contraction that completes each pair of sentences.
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Snakes and ladders
An American English worksheet to play a board game by putting the correct missing word in sentences.
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Snakes and ladders
A British English worksheet to play a board game by putting the correct phrasal verbs in sentences.
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Imaginative materials: yummy yummy yummy!
An interesting way to teach basic food vocabulary at lower levels is to also include some colloquial expressions such as ‘Yummy!’ ‘I’m starving!’ and ‘Yuk!' Once students know a dialogue you can easily substitute words to practise the names of different foods.