All Teaching Notes articles – Page 26
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Listening skills lesson plans: Radio and television advertisements
Listening for specific information and recognising context.
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Cambridge ESOL: Skills for Life: Classified adverts
This lesson aims to help students read car advertisements and understand abbreviations.
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Grammar: affixes
An article offering advice and suggestions on how to teach affixes in a contextualized way.
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One-to-one lessons: After a holiday
In this lesson, Lindsay Clandfield provides some tips and ideas for a lesson with a one-to-one student after a long break (e.g. a summer vaction).
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Before, during and after the reading test
Help students to prepare for the academic reading component of the IELTS exam with attached practice reading test.
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Skills: bringing dialogues alive
You can find short dialogues in many course books. How can you exploit these scripts and get them to come alive?
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British English: It's all in your mind – worksheet and teacher's notes
To highlight the metaphorical meanings of several words related to the mind.
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ArticleCambridge ESOL: Skills for Life: Alphabet and telephone books
This lesson aims to help students put words in alphabetical order and locate names.
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Skills: teaching English using anecdotes
Learners are often keen to hear stories about the teacher's life (even if they are not 100% true!). Here are some ideas for creating richer, more varied personal anecdotes.
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Reveal the answers
A British English worksheet to complete sentences and find the answer in the wordsearch.
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Grammar: around town: vocabulary, prepositions and directions
Teachers often make use of maps or real information about the town/district students are studying in when teaching prepositions, giving directions or town vocabulary. Here are a few ideas that might help add a spark to those lessons
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Showing someone around
To give a guided tour of a company and describe the work in different departments.
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ArticleSkills: assessing speaking skills
Teachers are often asked to evaluate learner progress during courses, maybe by preparing progress tests. Teachers often feel unsure as to the best way to do this. Here are some ideas.
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ArticleImaginative materials: teaching with authentic materials
Catalogues, shop brochures and leaflets are a type of authentic material often available free and in quantity. Here are some ideas for using these, whether printed in English or another language.
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General: are parrots back in fashion?
Current methodology seems to pay far less attention to memorising and remembering activities than more traditional teaching approaches. Here are a few practical ideas for being creatively unfashionable.
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Cambridge ESOL: Skills for Life: Bad CV
This lesson aims to help students read CVs to obtain meaning and write their own CV.
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Imaginative materials: teaching with simple props: bags
Teachers and learners carry books and equipment to their lessons in a variety of smart or scruffy bags. Here are some ways you could make use of these unassuming objects in class.