All Beginner articles – Page 30

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Skills: telephoning in English

For many learners using the telephone in English is a particularly nerve-wracking experience. As well as all the standard "telephone phrases" learners need strategies for getting a failing interaction to work. Here are some ideas for confidence-building in class.

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Skills: teaching English intonation

Many teachers find intonation difficult to teach. As a result they may avoid it. But intonation can be fun to work with - and it can make other language areas such as grammar easier to teach. Here are some ideas.

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Skills: teaching listening in English

Modern coursebooks provide some excellent recorded material, but it can be exciting to supplement this with more unusual sources of listening work. Here are some ideas.

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Vocabulary: plural noun endings

Rules for the use of /s/, /z/ or /IZ/ as the ending for plural nouns.

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Methodology: level testing in EFL

Advice on evaluating the level of new students.

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Imaginative materials: teaching resources: sound effects

Sound-effect CDs are an exciting teaching resource. These are recordings that have hardly any words on - but instead contain a sequence of noises such as crashes, bumps, bangs, whistles, screams etc. Here are some ideas for using sound-effects in the classroom.

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Skills: teaching resources: sound effects

Sound-effect CDs are an exciting teaching resource. These are recordings that have hardly any words on - but instead contain a sequence of noises such as crashes, bumps, bangs, whistles, screams etc. Here are some ideas for using sound-effects in the classroom.

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Minimal resources: Drilling

Philip Kerr gives us some useful tips and ideas for using drilling in the classroom.

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A dream house

A British English worksheet to look at a picture of a house for a short time and to memorize as many details as possible.

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Draw the sentence

A British English worksheet to draw and guess what people are doing.

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Students who don't want to write

An article discussing ways to overcome the problem of students who don't want to write.

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Food and drink dominoes

A British English worksheet to play a game of dominoes by matching quantity and container words with food and drink.

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Skills: whole-class discussions in English

Have you ever tried a whole-class discussion and, instead of speaking to each other, the learners direct all comments to you? How can you get more student-student interaction in such activities?

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Minimal resources: Role-plays and discussion

Scott Thornbury gives us some imaginative tips and ideas for using role-plays in lessons.

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Directions

A British English worksheet to ask for and give directions to different places on a map.

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Different lives

A British English worksheet to describe a typical day using pictures.

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Methodology: using dictation in English language teaching

An article discussing the role of dictation in English language teaching.

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Skills: dictation for teaching English

Traditional dictation - where the teacher reads a text aloud and the learners must write it down accurately - is often quite unpopular with learners. It can feel like an unfair test. Could we make it more enjoyable and useful?

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Imaginative materials: teaching with simple props: dice

Some of the most useful teaching props are the simplest. Most ELT teachers will have used dice at some time, perhaps when groups are playing a board game. Here are three ideas for more unusual uses of dice in class.

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Methodology: writing with linking devices: 'yet'

An article discussing the use of linking devices such as 'yet'