All Beginner articles – Page 33

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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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Grammar: differences between could and can

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

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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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Methodology: beginners in company

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

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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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Battleships

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

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Jazz Chants: I Can Play Basketball

Use this useful jazz chant to boost your students' pronunctiation and intonation. 

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Imaginative materials: teaching with simple props: bags

Teachers and learners carry books and equipment to their lessons in a variety of smart or scruffy bags. Here are some ways you could make use of these unassuming objects in class.

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General: are parrots back in fashion?

Current methodology seems to pay far less attention to memorising and remembering activities than more traditional teaching approaches. Here are a few practical ideas for being creatively unfashionable.

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Grammar and vocabulary: techniques for autonomous vocabulary learning

An article highlighting useful techniques for autonomous vocabulary learning.

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Imaginative materials: teaching with authentic materials

Catalogues, shop brochures and leaflets are a type of authentic material often available free and in quantity. Here are some ideas for using these, whether printed in English or another language.

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ESOL: Learning styles diagnostic assessment

To assess Entry 1 learners learning styles: visual / auditory / kinaesthetic / independent.

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Skills: assessing speaking skills

Teachers are often asked to evaluate learner progress during courses, maybe by preparing progress tests. Teachers often feel unsure as to the best way to do this. Here are some ideas.