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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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For many teachers, though the school year might have just ended – the joy of summer school classes is about to start. Or may have already, but I think lessons at my habitual summer haunt are due to begin on Monday morning – I’m not there this year, so 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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A relatively simple way of dealing with multiple choice cloze tasks in the classroom: Take one multiple choice cloze task, possibly one like this FCE style task found via a google image search, or just one from your coursebook. Before the class, you’ll Read More...
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The visual thesaurus was pointed out to me some time ago as a great alternative to the standard online dictionary search, and also as a great way to help learners broaden their vocabulary, particularly with higher level students who have a tendency to Read More...
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State of the World’s Mothers 2011 Statistics and Facts – Save the Children - thanks to Greg Fuller for posting this on facebook….. There’s a lot of information here and obviously the most interesting thing for any class to do would be to pull out all Read More...
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A nice piece from “Intelligent Life” on the changing nature of language – thanks to Rob Szabo for spotting it and posting it here: McKinnon Language Solutions » Blog Archive » On Language Nerds and Nags . Makes you wonder, just a little bit, whether what Read More...
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An alternative to the work through it together option… Basically, you need two different open cloze tasks from a test book (or you can use the examples given in the exam handbooks available from Cambridge ESOL’s teacher support site ). You then need to Read More...
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Thanks to Tommy Holt for spotting this and mentioning it on facebook! Primary pad is an online synchronous editing tool – learners can access and edit the same document at the same time. This is the first tool I’ve come across that allows synchronous Read More...
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No site with “geek” in the name would be worthy of it without a reference to comic books somewhere… So it’s thanks to the marketing folks at Marvel Comics for creating this handy little Superhero creator: Create Your Own Superhero | Games | Marvel.com Read More...
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I first watched Ken Robinson’s TED talk – “ Do Schools Kill Creativity? ” some months ago – a thought provoking examination of the aims of the educational establishment. It has influenced my thinking about the aims of teaching quite heavily, though perhaps Read More...
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This is a lesson aimed more at pre-intermediate / intermediate level learners that “introduces” SHOULD and SHOULDN’T. Though it can be used to revise the language point if learners have met it previously! It is based around using Should / Shouldn’t for Read More...
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“Teacher No!” “Teacher, I have three tests this week!” Chances are, you’ve probably experienced the chorus of protest and dismay as you blithely announce the homework task of the day. Or alternatively as you ask your learners to present the task you set Read More...
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This is a lesson that aims to increase the range of linking devices / expressions learners have available to them, and in particular focuses on five relatively simple devices: In order to / so that / as / in case / otherwise. The lesson as given would Read More...
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