All Teaching Notes articles – Page 27
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Skills: responding to real-life events
When there is a tragic event in the world teachers often feel the need to address it in some way in classroom time. Finding a way to do this appropriately and sensitively can sometimes be hard. Help is here.
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IELTS: Structuring an essay
An integrated skills lesson with the overall aim of preparing students to write an essay on the issue of public transport/car ownership.
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Minimal resources: The immediate environment
Scott Thornbury offers some valuable tips and ideas for using your immediate environment to make imaginative language lessons.
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Telephone enquiries
To role play a telephone conversation between an employee at a credit card company and a potential new customer.
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Enough and plenty
A British English worksheet to complete activities using the correct adjectives of quantity.
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General: teaching English one-to-one
Long one-to-one lessons can sometimes be exhausting for both teacher and learner. Here are some ideas for keeping them fresh.
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Imaginative materials: teaching English using timetables
Printed train or bus timetables are often available as free leaflets or can be downloaded and printed from the internet. This simple resource can be used in a number of ways.
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Imaginative materials: using movies to teach English
Most students enjoy watching a good movie, whether at the cinema or on TV. Here are a few ideas for making use of their interest and knowledge to create some unusual activities.
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Skills: telephoning in English
For many learners using the telephone in English is a particularly nerve-wracking experience. As well as all the standard "telephone phrases" learners need strategies for getting a failing interaction to work. Here are some ideas for confidence-building in class.
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Skills: teaching English intonation
Many teachers find intonation difficult to teach. As a result they may avoid it. But intonation can be fun to work with - and it can make other language areas such as grammar easier to teach. Here are some ideas.
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Skills: teaching listening in English
Modern coursebooks provide some excellent recorded material, but it can be exciting to supplement this with more unusual sources of listening work. Here are some ideas.
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Imaginative materials: teaching resources: sound effects
Sound-effect CDs are an exciting teaching resource. These are recordings that have hardly any words on - but instead contain a sequence of noises such as crashes, bumps, bangs, whistles, screams etc. Here are some ideas for using sound-effects in the classroom.
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Skills: teaching resources: sound effects
Sound-effect CDs are an exciting teaching resource. These are recordings that have hardly any words on - but instead contain a sequence of noises such as crashes, bumps, bangs, whistles, screams etc. Here are some ideas for using sound-effects in the classroom.
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One-to-one methodology: Ten practical tips for effective lessons
Author and teacher trainer Tim Bowen offers ten practical tips for making one-to-one teaching work.
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Minimal resources: Drilling
Philip Kerr gives us some useful tips and ideas for using drilling in the classroom.
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Skills: whole-class discussions in English
Have you ever tried a whole-class discussion and, instead of speaking to each other, the learners direct all comments to you? How can you get more student-student interaction in such activities?
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Minimal resources: Role-plays and discussion
Scott Thornbury gives us some imaginative tips and ideas for using role-plays in lessons.
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Discussing options
To discuss the consequences of different courses of action and decide which is best.
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One-to-one methodology: Ten tips to minimize disadvantages
Ten tips to minimize the disadvantages of teaching in a one-to-one context.