All Advanced articles – Page 46
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Lesson Share: Debates: Where to sit
The class attempts to reach a consensus on where everyone should sit.
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Defamation
Students practise a range of different skills in relation to the topic of defamation.
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Phrasal verbs: Teaching phrasal verbs using equivalents and definitions
Many phrasal verbs can be said another way, and many learners of English tend to favour the non-phrasal verb equivalent. This often makes them sound formal. This lesson for intermediate-level students helps students learn – and practise – some phrasal verbs common in spoken English.
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Lesson Share: Team games: Vocabulary definitions game
This game is a good way of revising vocabulary from the previous lesson.
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Exams: Describing how something works
Preparing students for the writing part 1 of the Academic IELTS exam.
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Dream destinations
An American English worksheet to find the person who has the other half of your picture by describing your own picture. To write a description of a place.
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Professional development: reflective teaching
A discussion on ways to improve teaching through systematic inquiry.
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Methodology: writing with linking devices: 'yet'
An article discussing the use of linking devices such as 'yet'
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Lesson Share: Pictures: Dialogue in music
This simple activity uses a piece of instrumental music to create a dialogue.
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Imaginative materials: teaching with simple props: dice
Some of the most useful teaching props are the simplest. Most ELT teachers will have used dice at some time, perhaps when groups are playing a board game. Here are three ideas for more unusual uses of dice in class.
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Lesson Share: Exchanging information: 'Dicey' questions
Students roll the dice to find out which question word to use.
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Lesson Share: Teenagers: Jokes (a silly dictation)
This warmer/lesson filler exercise is a missing word dictation which will get students laughing.
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Skills: dictation for teaching English
Traditional dictation - where the teacher reads a text aloud and the learners must write it down accurately - is often quite unpopular with learners. It can feel like an unfair test. Could we make it more enjoyable and useful?
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Methodology: using dictation in English language teaching
An article discussing the role of dictation in English language teaching.
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Minimal resources: Role-plays and discussion
Scott Thornbury gives us some imaginative tips and ideas for using role-plays in lessons.
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Lesson Share: Discussions: What's in a name?
Most people have a story associated with their name.
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Lesson Share: Discussions: New things
Students discuss six new things they have done since arriving in this country/over the last year.