All Beginner articles – Page 29

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Battleships

A British English worksheet to find hidden words or sentences by naming numbered squares on a grid.

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ESOL beginner lessons: Comparatives and superlatives

A lesson by Chris Speck about describing people and places.

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ESOL beginner lessons: Joe and the thieves

This lesson aims to help students listen and recount a story, writing a story from memory using the past tense.

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ESOL beginner lessons: Pronunciation

This lesson aims to help students with pronunciation of past tense (-ed) words, adjectives ending in -ed.

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ESOL beginner lessons: will and going to

This lesson aims to help students understand the difference between the constructions will and going to.

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Methodology: beginners in company

Advice and suggestions of how to begin a Business English course.

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Beginning reading and writing: Internalizing letters

Olha Madylus offers a selection of physical activities that help children remember the shape of letters they've been introduced to.

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Beginning reading and writing: Recognition games

Olha Madylus offers a selection of games that help children recognise and use the letters they've been introduced to, including beginning to write them.

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Beginning reading and writing: Learning words

Olha Madylus offers a selection of tips and activities to help your students begin to put letters together to form words.

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Beginning vocabulary: Presenting new vocabulary

Olha Madylus gives advice on how to present and practise vocabulary, using a practical staged approach.

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Beginning vocabulary: Pronunciation and drilling

Olha Madylus gives advice on how to get your young learners practising pronunciation, using techniques including choral repetition, songs and tongue twisters.

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Grammar: differences between could and can

An article discussing the differences between could and can when expressing possibility.

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Elementary: Bingo: Numbers

An American English worksheet to review the numbers 1-100.

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Starter/Beginner: Bingo: Time

A British English worksheet to play a game of bingo and to recognize the times of the day.

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Lesson Share: Children: Mr Lemon has a birthday party

To recycle colours, clothes, introductions, age, abilities, likes, dislikes, set expressions (here you are, thank you, you're welcome).

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Imaginative materials: board games for teaching English

Learners are often familiar with popular board games. Inventing new games (or adapting familiar games) can often produce materials that motivate students to talk and practise language.

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Professional development: teachers using broken English

Advice on how to tackle the problem of teachers using broken English.

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I live in Buckingham Palace

A British English worksheet to play a board game by matching verbs with other words and expressions.

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Minimal resources: Building dialogue

Scott Thornbury gives us some great tips and ideas for building dialogue in speaking activities.

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Vocabulary: while, whilst, burned, burnt

A discussion about using 'while' versus 'whilst' and 'burned' versus 'burnt'.