All Teaching Notes articles – Page 28
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Skills: dictation for teaching English
Traditional dictation - where the teacher reads a text aloud and the learners must write it down accurately - is often quite unpopular with learners. It can feel like an unfair test. Could we make it more enjoyable and useful?
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Methodology: using dictation in English language teaching
An article discussing the role of dictation in English language teaching.
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Imaginative materials: teaching with simple props: dice
Some of the most useful teaching props are the simplest. Most ELT teachers will have used dice at some time, perhaps when groups are playing a board game. Here are three ideas for more unusual uses of dice in class.
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Methodology: writing with linking devices: 'yet'
An article discussing the use of linking devices such as 'yet'
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ArticleIELTS: Describing a sequence of events or a process
The aim of this exercise is to help students describe a sequence of events in the past and describe a process using the present simple.
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IELTS: Describing maps - teacher's notes
The aim of this exercise is to help students describe maps.
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IELTS: Describing tables - teacher's notes
The aim of this exercise is to help students extract information from data presented in a table.
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Describing a product
To apply adjectives to different products to describe their advantages and disadvantages.
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Phrasal verbs: Teaching phrasal verbs using equivalents and definitions
Many phrasal verbs can be said another way, and many learners of English tend to favour the non-phrasal verb equivalent. This often makes them sound formal. This lesson for intermediate-level students helps students learn – and practise – some phrasal verbs common in spoken English.
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Warmer/FillerFirst Day: Name games
Here are some fun games to help your new class get to know each other and learn their classmates’ names.
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IELTS: Describing data-line graphs—An introduction
The aim of this is to help familiarize students with doing Task 1 in the academic writing module in the IELTS exam.
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General: holiday English courses
Many teachers do summer work teaching on short intensive courses. Such courses often have more of a holiday atmosphere than normal classes and teachers may look for jollier, summery activities.
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ArticleGeneral: teaching with coursebooks
If your relationship with your coursebook is going a little stale, here are a baker’s dozen of ideas to inspire and provoke you.
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General: controlling lesson time
It can feel unsatisfactory to suddenly rush an activity at the end of a lesson. Here are some strategies for taking control of time and shortening over-long stages.
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The marketing consultant
To gather information and then present a profile of a product and a marketing strategy for it.
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Grammar: teaching conditionals
Conditional structures that begin If + present tense offer lots of possibilities for interesting tasks, presentations or practice activities. Here are a few ideas.
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Conditional dominoes
An American English worksheet to play a game of dominoes by matching two halves of a conditional sentence.