All Upper-Intermediate articles – Page 56
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ArticleSkills: teaching phonics: sounds and symbols
Phonemes can be difficult for learners and teachers. Here are a few ideas that could help teachers as well as learners become more comfortable when working with phonemes.
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Past and present
A British English worksheet to make the past simple form of the verbs by changing a vowel.
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Past and present
A British English worksheet to complete activities to practise using the past and present tenses.
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ArticleSkills: the same old song
Songs are a popular resource with teachers and learners alike – but, when it comes to exploiting them in class, why on earth does it always seem to be gap-fills? Here are a few alternative ideas.
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Ten years from now…
A British English worksheet to make predictions about what people will be doing ten years from now.
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Writing skills: news story
To help students produce writing with a higher occurrence of lexical variation, complex sentences and appropriate use of passive structures.
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Neighbours
A British English worksheet to dictate part of a story and to write down what your partner dictates to you.
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Minimal resources: Teaching vocabulary
Adrian Tennant gives us some useful tips and ideas for teaching vocabulary with minimal resources.
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Methodology: public speaking
An article discussing and offering suggestions about teaching public speaking.
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Methodology: shy students
An article offering suggestions and advice on teaching shy students.
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Methodology: teaching pronunciation
Advice and suggestions on how to teach pronunciation, in particular 'dark l'.
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Vocabulary: teaching make and do
Advice and teaching suggestions of how to overcome the confusion between 'make' and 'do.'
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Skills: longer reads
Students who do a lot of extensive reading in English seem to make substantial progress. Here are some general ideas for starting to use longer texts.
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Phrasal verbs: Teaching phrasal verbs using a literary text
Using authentic texts can be a motivating way to teach phrasal verbs. This lesson plan presents eight new phrasal verbs using a literary text as a starting point. The learners deduce the meaning of the phrasal verbs from their context, and then write a follow up story using more new phrasal verbs.
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Methodology: new ways to teach listening
Practical suggestions of new ways to teach listening.