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ArticleLesson Share: Teenagers: The balloon game
A fun game to energize students and foster cooperation / team spirit.
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Teenagers: Warmers: The balloon game
A fun way to introduce a new topic and to foster cooperation and team spirit.
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Lesson Share: Spelling: Spelling ball
A simple and very fun game that warms students up and encourages creativity and correct spelling.
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Imaginative materials: teaching with simple props: bags
Teachers and learners carry books and equipment to their lessons in a variety of smart or scruffy bags. Here are some ways you could make use of these unassuming objects in class.
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Phrase of the week: to let the cat out of the bag
Tim Bowen sheds some light on the origins and definition of the phrase to let the cat out of the bag.
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Cambridge ESOL: Skills for Life: Bad CV
This lesson aims to help students read CVs to obtain meaning and write their own CV.
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Teenagers: Songs: Music in the background
Having music playing in the background during lessons can be very successful in most contexts.
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Verb backgammon
A British English worksheet to use the backgammon pieces to change each short word into a verb.
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Lesson Share: Memory games: Clap back
Clap back is good for breaking the ice in a lesson, getting a little energy into the classroom, improving pronunciation and developing general memory skills.
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General: are parrots back in fashion?
Current methodology seems to pay far less attention to memorising and remembering activities than more traditional teaching approaches. Here are a few practical ideas for being creatively unfashionable.
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Teenagers: Limited resources: Classroom set-up B
By putting two desks together, students can easily work together, sharing ideas and peer teaching. This is very useful when your students are mixed ability as stronger ones can help those with problems.
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ArticleTeenagers: Speaking: Why teenagers avoid using English
Reasons why teenagers may be reluctant to speak English in class and solutions to help students overcome this problem.
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Grammar and vocabulary: techniques for autonomous vocabulary learning
An article highlighting useful techniques for autonomous vocabulary learning.
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Titles and authors
A British English worksheet to read out the names of the authors and write down the sentence or phrase which sounds exactly the same.
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ArticleImaginative materials: teaching with authentic materials
Catalogues, shop brochures and leaflets are a type of authentic material often available free and in quantity. Here are some ideas for using these, whether printed in English or another language.
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The auditor career game
To expand and practise the basic vocabulary associated with financial auditing.