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Inspired by a recent feature on The Guardian website, which invites readers to share their memories of where they were and what they were doing (click here for more detail), I was thinking about collating teaching resources on the topic and presenting Read More...
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Back in July I posted a selections of 20 ideas and activities that might be worth trying out as you get to know your new classes this school year – and since then there’ve been a couple of additional ideas to throw into the mix: First Lesson Ideas / Warmers Read More...
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I spotted this one on a post on the TeachingEnglish | British Council facebook page – who in turn spotted it on the Voxy Blog . The infographic below comes out of the work of Mark Prensky and his concepts of Digital Natives and Digital Immigrants – and Read More...
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A very quick alternative to the standard composition task “What I did on my Summer holidays”. Essentially, you ask the learners to write the composition (100 words? I guess length will be age & level dependent) about somebody else in the class. I think Read More...
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This is an alternative approach to the inevitable “what did you do on your holidays” conversation. Many first lesson activities and ideas are based on the premise that nobody knows anybody else but often the students in your classes have come up through Read More...
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This is a post aimed more at those who live in countries where the risk of wild fires / forest fires is a regular hazard. This is certainly the case where I live – wildfires are a frequent cause of much devastation and trauma, what always fazes me is Read More...
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The Vortex Game. This is a game I’ve created that can be used with any age or level – for pretty much any purpose. It came out of a conversation with a colleague (thanks Sarah!) who was looking for an idea to help learners with minimal pronunciation pairs, Read More...
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Just a quick lesson overview rather than a full plan etc today: this is an idea for helping learners with comparisons / comparatives. Basically it starts out with the activity “Tea or Coffee”, follows up with the language input stage, invites comparisons Read More...
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This is an entry for everyone currently working at an ELT summer school somewhere in the world! It’s not always easy and there’s a lot of hard work – hopefully this post will help out a bit! I’ve been fortunate enough to enjoy my summer school experiences Read More...
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This is a great activity that you can use as a warmer or as a fun practice task in a number of situations. I should acknowledge that I originally saw my Dip tutor Peter Moran do this during a lesson in Wroclaw in 2006 – in various forms it’s been one Read More...
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Following on from the recent blog challenge on raising awareness of disability access issues, I came across the Leonard Cheshire Disability campaign whilst watching Shaun the Sheep dvds with my daughter. The campaign is called “ Creature Discomforts ” Read More...
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I spotted a colleague (Thanks Neil!) using this with a class the other day and it looked brilliant and so investigated – it is really impressive work! Turns out Neil spotted this on Larry Ferlazzo’s site . The Curfew game is aimed at young adults / older Read More...
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Here’s another overview of an FCE Writing lesson: The lesson is based around the idea of a model text – in this case a “bad” model (which I really enjoyed writing!). In brief: (1) Write the word “REPORT” up on the board and ask learners, in three or four Read More...
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A couple of weeks ago I posted in response to Marisa Constantinides’ Tefl Matters Blog Challenge - an awareness raising lesson on disability access for EFL/ESL learners. What I have here is possibly more in the spirit of the original challenge, as it Read More...
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It’s early evening on a Friday about 7.30pm and the end of a long week both for me and the poor student who’s ended up scheduling her lessons at a time when the only other person in the school is the receptionist who has to lock up after us. We’ve been Read More...
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