All Beginner articles – Page 27
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General: extension activities
Ever run out of things to do five minutes before the end of class? An important lesson management skill is to make your material perfectly fit the lesson time.
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ArticleBeginning vocabulary: Practice activities
Olha Madylus offers a selection of fun and practical activities you can use to help your young learners practise the vocabulary they've learned.
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Lesson Share: Pronunciation: memory activity
Introducing the phonemic chart and in particular the phonetic symbols used to represent diphthongs.
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General: addressing the SP in ESP
English for Specific Purposes (ESP) involves more than just working with texts and examples relevant to a particular professional area. Here are some ways of addressing those elusive SPs.
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Grammar: stance markers and adverbials
An article giving examples and explaining the usage of stance markers and adverbials.
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Cambridge ESOL: Skills for Life: Classified adverts
This lesson aims to help students read car advertisements and understand abbreviations.
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ArticleAdvice on Teaching English spelling
An article offering suggestions for teaching English spelling from Pauline Taylor.
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Grammar: affixes
An article offering advice and suggestions on how to teach affixes in a contextualized way.
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Skills: bringing dialogues alive
You can find short dialogues in many course books. How can you exploit these scripts and get them to come alive?
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Skills: teaching English using anecdotes
Learners are often keen to hear stories about the teacher's life (even if they are not 100% true!). Here are some ideas for creating richer, more varied personal anecdotes.
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ArticleESOL support: Questions and answers
Chris Speck gives tips and advice on how to teach ESOL adults to read and write.
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Methodology: the natural approach
Practical advice on The Natural Approach and how to use it in the ELT classroom.
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Teaching approaches: what is audiolingualism?
An article discussing the concept of audiolingualism.
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ArticleTeaching approaches: the communicative classroom
An article discussing the communicative language teaching approach.
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Teaching approaches: computer assisted language learning
An article discussing the development of computer assisted language learning.
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Teaching approaches: content-based teaching
An article discussing the benefits of content-based language learning.