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IELTS: Minimal resources - speaking

Introduction: A note about the IELTS speaking paper PART 1Examiner asks candidates general questions e.g. about their home country, job, free time, etc. PART 2 Candidate has a minute to prepare a monologue to speak for one to two minutes on a topic which ...

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IELTS: Minimal resources - listening and reading

Introduction These are activitives for part one of the listening test, some of which also practice reading skills. All use minimal resources. Word building activity using dictation Time: 20 minutes +Language focus: Word building: science and technology, focus on spelling This is a very simple activity using dictation to ...

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Elementary news lesson: Louvre art museum opens in Abu Dhabi

December 2017: The museum cost 100 million euros and was opened by the French president, Emmanuel Macron, in November 2017.

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Digital tool selection: Learner autonomy

This lesson idea looks at how to stimulate autonomy in your classes.

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Business Spotlight: Good ideas

This lesson, based on an article from Business Spotlight, is about innovative ideas that help people as well as the environment. 

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Pronunciation matters: Integrating pronunciation into your teaching

In this article, Adrian Tennant looks at when you should teach pronunciation and how you can integrate it into your lesson, with a number of practical ideas and activities given as inspiration.

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Pronunciation Matters: Prescriptive or descriptive?

The terms prescriptive and descriptive are well known with reference to the teaching of grammar. However, in this article they are used in regards to the teaching of pronunciation. Here, Adrian Tennant looks at a number of issues surrounding the ways in which pronunciation is dealt with in learning materials ...

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Pronunciation matters: Using the phonemic chart

This article looks at different ways of using the phonemic chart with your students. It presents reasons why it is useful for students to know the phonemic alphabet, and gives a few practical ideas to help teachers use the phonemic chart in their lessons. 

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Pronunciation matters: Sound reasons for teaching pronunciation

Why is it important to teach pronunciation?  What are some of the key areas of pronunciation? In this article, Adrian Tennant will be answering these questions as well as giving a few practical ideas to help teachers get started. 

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Elementary news lesson: Fifty-eight die in shooting in Las Vegas

November 2017: The shooting of people at a music festival was the worst mass killing by one person in American history.

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Digital tool selection: Deepening learning

This lesson idea looks at how to deepen your students’ learning through creativity with content. 

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Business Spotlight: Brexit meets Industry 4.0

This lesson, based on an article from Business Spotlight, considers the role that post-Brexit Britain will play in Industry 4.0.

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Lesson Share: Spanish omelette

Zara Chew wins this month’s Lesson Share competition with a lesson that practises countable and uncountable nouns.

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Elementary news lesson: Hurricane Irma – the worst Atlantic storm ever

October 2017: It will cost around $120 billion to clean up and rebuild houses, schools, hospitals and roads in the USA and Caribbean.

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Digital tool selection: Enable peer assessment

This lesson idea looks at how to encourage and enable peer assessment in your classes.

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Podcast: Episode 12

This month the panel discusses language plateaus, office jargon and reflective teaching. Special guests include Niall O’Siadhail, teacher at Avalon School of English, London, and David Crytal OBE, world-renowned linguist, academic, and author of over 100 books on the English language.

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Business Spotlight: Staying at home

This lesson, based on an article from Business Spotlight, is about the increasing popularity of holidays taken at home.

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Lesson Share: Fun with articles

Andrew Starck wins this month’s Lesson Share competition with a lesson that practises using definite and indefinite articles.

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Elementary news lesson: Is it safe to eat eggs?

September 2017: The Netherlands produces millions of eggs each year, but some are found to contain a chemical which could be harmful.

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Digital tool selection: Allow variation

This video and lesson idea look at how to allow some variation in your digital class through introducing storytelling.