All Teaching Notes articles – Page 29
-
Article
Imaginative materials: using computers to teach English
Mulitmedia presentation programs (e.g. Microsoft PowerPoint) are a good way of storing and showing images and text in unusual ways – as a high-tech slide show. Here are some teaching ideas, all suitable for classrooms with only a single computer.
-
Article
Grammar: teaching comparatives in English
Coursebook lessons on comparative forms often ask students to make random comparisons between things for no obvious reason. Here are some typical real-life contexts when we are genuinely likely to compare.
-
Article
Company structure
To talk about company organization, people's responsibilities and who they report to.
-
Article
Communication skills
To discuss techniques for giving a presentation, chairing a meeting and writing a report.
-
Article
General: teaching idioms and collocations
Break away from predictable coursebook topics! How about basing a whole morning round a single word? These ideas would work for many items.
-
Article
One-to-one methodology: Situation one – dealing with students who just want to chat
How do you encourage a one-to-one student to focus on grammar, vocabulary or pronunciation, when all they want to do in their lessons is chat? Alex Case provides tips for dealing with this situation, along with a sample lesson plan.
-
Article
Writing skills: Cause and effect
To bring attention to the need for lexical variation in a good essay and to increase range of cause and effect phrases and topic related vocabulary.
-
ArticleListening skills lesson plans: Catching up on news
Listening for specific information, inferring relationships and inferring meaning.
-
Article
Choosing the right candidate
To ask and answer questions about someone's education, qualifications and work experience.
-
Article
Cambridge ESOL: Skills for Life: Using catalogues
This lesson aims to help students to use an index, scan, locate information, read and write reference numbers.
-
Article
Cambridge ESOL: Skills for Life: Computers
This lesson aims to help students learn vocabulary associated with computers.
-
ArticleCambridge ESOL: Skills for Life: Contract of employment
This lesson aims to help students with reading and the language of contracts.
-
Article
Cambridge ESOL: Skills for Life: Form filling
This lesson aims to help students with form filling.
-
Article
Cambridge ESOL: Skills for Life: Signs
This lesson aims to help students learn the formal language used in signs.