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Bring authentic, current news into your classroom - 8 ways to use newspapers with your ELT students.
In her blogpost this week, Chia Suan Chong looks at more ways her daughter has informed her understanding of language acquisition.
Pre-intermediate (A2) –Intermediate (B1)
Learner type: Teens and adults
Last January, Google Translate updated big-time with support for (not quite) real time voice translation and translation of text through camera images (see “Google Translate” Starts A Big Time Upda...
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I am currently in Sheffield where I will be teaching EAP for the next six weeks. Last week was induction week and I learnt a few interesting things that I would like to share with you. Today I will...
This is an adaptation of a fun and inventive game that was released just last year. While the original game is played on a computer, this adaptation for the classroom is played on paper. This is a ...
I’m currently working at the British Council summer school in Ho Chi Minh City. It’s been a fantastic experience so far, and it’s the first time I’ve ever taught English to Vietnamese learners. It’...
There are many situations where it isn't possible to use technology in the classroom. It can be because the classroom doesn't have the necessary resources, or worse the technology has failed and yo...
This EFL lesson is designed around a short film by The Mercadantes which explores how beauty can be found in the most seemingly mundane objects, and the theme of colours. Students revise colours, c...
I am not against vocabulary lists or word banks as a way to review what you have studied, but I am curious why they are used so often to introduce new language. As a language learner myself, I am f...
Chia Suan Chong provides an in-depth blog on Danny Norrington-Davies’s workshop, Once upon a time, there was a short completed action, from the recent ETp Live! conference
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How do you know you are a teacher? Whenever you read, hear or see something new, you immediately start thinking of how you can tweak it for the classroom. The other day I came across Personality Po...
This is a video-based lesson for intermediate students, suitable for both teens and adults. It focuses on skill development and introduces / reviews quite a lot
I lost count of the number of times I got asked this over three days of parent-teacher meetings at my school. In fact, I don't know if this was the exact question they asked, because we rely on tra...
A previous blog post looked at 10 books recommended for the CELTA course but I also received a number of questions on Twitter, Facebook and this blog from readers wondering about how to prepare for...
As part of the Sheffield University 10 week pre-sessional programme, I have been teaching a Social English class 3 afternoons a week at 1h30 a pop. Last week on Thursday, I introduced them to the p...
Whether you love them or hate them, gap fill exercises seem to be everywhere. If you are teaching from a course book you are always going to come across a gap fill exercise. If you are teaching usi...
It has been a while since I have posted any practical ideas for the classroom, and for this I am sorry. However, yesterday I found inspiration, yet again, while preparing for a workshop for my teac...
How do you define "online teachers"? Well, we have a fresh perspective on this that may change your thinking.
The title of this post is a bit of a mouthful: try repeating the –ive ending of effective and reflective without stumbling over your tongue. The spelling and punctuation is a little bit tricky: sho...
Video Creation
By Paul
Overview: Learners storyboard, research, script, rehearse and perform a
short dramatic sequence set on a plane.
Primary Focus: This is an open-ended project designed to encourage learner
autonomy. As such, the language aims are loose, with the pedagogical
emphasis on guiding learners through their “hunt” and subsequent
appropriation and adaptation of language that they think the context
demands. This may include a wide (though fairly predictable) variety of
struct
I prepared a ppt presentation for this lesson, which you can download here. Level: Intermediate and above, but could be adopted to lower levels too. Time: Between 1.5 and 2 hours Aims: students wil...
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