All articles by Adrian Tennant – Page 6
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Lesson Share: Professional development: preparing for DELTA
Are you thinking of taking your teaching career to the next level? Adrian Tennant answers a question on how to prepare for the DELTA course.
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Impressionism and Monet
This is a content lesson on the topic of Impressionism and, in particular, Claude Monet. The lesson has an art focus, but is designed to be of interest for students studying general EFL as well.
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Vocabulary matters: What do words mean?
This article takes a look at the different aspects of ‘knowing’ a word, starting with a look at some of the things we need to know about a word in order to really understand it and finishing with a few practical activities.
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ArticleReading matters: Reading strategies
This article looks at a variety of different strategies and examines why, when and how you might use each of them to develop your students' reading skills.
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Writing matters: Creative writing
In this article we take a look at what is meant by 'creative writing' and why it can be a useful tool in helping improve our students’ writing skills and overall level of English.
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Writing matters: Developing accuracy
Accuracy in written work is important, but how can we help our students to become accurate writers? In this article, Adrian Tennant tries to answer this question and provides some practical activities that focus on accuracy.
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Global warming
A comprehensive lesson plan by Adrian Tennant on the topical issue of global warming. There are vocabulary and reading exercises and role cards to start a lively debate on the subject which is now firmly back on the agenda with recent weather events around the world.
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ArticleReading matters: Genre
In this article, Adrian Tennant explores the issue of text types and includes a number of practical activities.
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Writing matters: Developing fluency
Most teachers have heard of fluency in terms of speaking but what does it mean when applied to writing? In this article we examine the concept of fluency in writing.
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ArticleReading matters: What is reading?
This article takes a look at what we actually mean by reading and whether or not it can be taught or just practised.
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Listening matters: Tasks for listening
Adrian Tennant looks at common listening issues and provides practical hints and tips for putting students at the centre of listening tasks.
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ArticleWriting matters: Getting started
This article takes a look at getting started with writing practice and examines why students often find writing difficult.
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Tom Sawyer: Listening activities: Chapters 5 & 6
Listening activities by Adrian Tennant, including the transcripts for Chapter 5 and Chapter 6.
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Tom Sawyer: Listening activities: Chapters 3 & 4
Listening activities by Adrian Tennant, including the transcript for Chapter 3 and Chapter 4.
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Tom Sawyer: Chapters 13, 14 & 15: Audio and activities
The final three chapters of this beginner-level Macmillan Reader are now available for all Staff Room members. Tom and Becky get lost in the caves...
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Tom Sawyer: Chapters 1 & 2: Listening activities
Listening activities by Adrian Tennant to accompany Chapters 1 & 2 of 'The Adventures of Tom Sawyer' podcasts.
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Speaking matters: Developing fluency
Adrian Tennant presents an article covering various aspects of teaching fluency in speaking, including sections on what is meant by fluency, why students find fluency difficult and the role of the teacher in fluency activities.
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Listening matters: Process listening
Adrian Tennant takes a look at the issues surrounding teaching listening, gives advice on how teachers can help their students and provides some practical ideas for the classroom.
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The History of Chocolate
A topic-based lesson about the history and manufacture of chocolate.
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ArticleListening matters: Top-down and bottom-up listening
Adrian Tennant explores two concepts relating to how students process listening texts – 'top down' and 'bottom up' – and gives some practical ideas for the classroom.