All Beginner articles – Page 27

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Imaginative materials: Texting

Do you get annoyed when your students concentrate on using their mobile phones to text each other rather than focusing on the lesson? Here are five ideas for exploiting text messaging in class.

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Imaginative materials: pets

Pets and other animals play an important role in many learners' lives. Here are some ideas for exploiting the theme.

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Imaginative materials: teaching with simple props: string

Some props don't immediately suggest themselves as useful teaching aids. For example, what could one possibly do with a bag of clothes pegs and a piece of string? Mmm…

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Imaginative materials: teaching with newspapers

Teachers rarely have access to whole class sets of newspapers. Here are six ideas for things you can do using a single copy of a newspaper.

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Secret identities

A British English worksheet to write the names of famous people using numbers in place of letters of the alphabet. To work out names according to a code by doing a running dictation.

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Imaginative materials: treasure hunting

How could you create an exciting treasure hunt puzzle for your students? Here are ideas for two kinds of game – a basic chain of clues and letterboxing.

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How many people can…?

A British English worksheet to find out what people in the class can do by asking and answering questions.

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On holiday

A British English worksheet to predict which activities a partner likes or doesn't like doing on holiday and to find out how many predictions were right.

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Sentences in a hat

A British English worksheet to complete unfinished sentences and to pick sentences out of a hat and find out who wrote them by asking questions.

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Methodology: individualizing in groups

An article offering suggestions and advice on how to individualize learning within a group.

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Tell your group

A British English worksheet to play a board game to practise past simple regular verbs.

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Lesson Share: Grammar: Can you do it?

Lindsay Clandfield's winning lesson practises the modal verb can (ability) using a game of questions.

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Grammar: 'unless' and 'if'

An article explaining the difference in meaning between if and unless in conditional sentences.

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Grammar: 'them' and 'they'

An explanation of the use of them and they in different contexts.

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Grammar: modal verbs may and might

An article explaining the difference between the modal verbs may and might.

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Grammar: the verb 'to be'

A discussion answer to the question "what is the verb 'to be'?"

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Grammar: regular and irregular verbs

Practical suggestions for teaching regular and irregular verbs.

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Grammar: teaching the modals 'ought to', 'should', 'must' and 'have to'.

Suggestions for teaching the modals ought to, should, must and have to when talking about suggestion or advice.

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Grammar: practising the present and past simple tenses

Imaginative suggestions for teaching the present and past simple tenses to children.

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Grammar: reporting verb patterns

A discussion and teaching suggestions for reporting verb patterns.