All Teaching Notes articles – Page 31
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Beginning reading and writing: Internalizing letters
Olha Madylus offers a selection of physical activities that help children remember the shape of letters they've been introduced to.
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Beginning reading and writing: Recognition games
Olha Madylus offers a selection of games that help children recognise and use the letters they've been introduced to, including beginning to write them.
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ArticleBeginning reading and writing: Learning words
Olha Madylus offers a selection of tips and activities to help your students begin to put letters together to form words.
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ArticleBeginning vocabulary: Presenting new vocabulary
Olha Madylus gives advice on how to present and practise vocabulary, using a practical staged approach.
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Beginning vocabulary: Pronunciation and drilling
Olha Madylus gives advice on how to get your young learners practising pronunciation, using techniques including choral repetition, songs and tongue twisters.
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ESOL beginner lessons: Comparatives and superlatives
A lesson by Chris Speck about describing people and places.
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ESOL beginner lessons: Joe and the poor man
This lesson aims to help students make simple present tense questions (not in the 3rd person).
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ESOL beginner lessons: Joe and the thieves
This lesson aims to help students listen and recount a story, writing a story from memory using the past tense.
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ESOL beginner lessons: Pronunciation
This lesson aims to help students with pronunciation of past tense (-ed) words, adjectives ending in -ed.
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ArticleESOL beginner lessons: will and going to
This lesson aims to help students understand the difference between the constructions will and going to.
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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.
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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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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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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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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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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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Reveal the answers
A British English worksheet to complete sentences and find the answer in the wordsearch.