All Beginner articles – Page 35

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Grammar: reporting verb patterns

A discussion and teaching suggestions for reporting verb patterns.

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Methodology: the grammar translation method

A discussion on the use of the grammar translation method in English teaching.

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Grammar and vocabulary: teaching and learning idioms

A discussion and useful techniques for learning and teaching idioms.

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Grammar: reviewing the present simple

Present simple for habits and routines is a frequently taught item. Here are some new ways of teaching these familiar items.

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Grammar: an 'A' or 'The'

Choosing the correct article - “a” “an” “the” or Ø (zero article) – is, for many students, an ongoing problem all the way from beginner to advanced classes. Here are a few quick ideas for practising them at lower levels.

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Teenagers: Grammar: Grammar practice

Some useful ideas to get your students to practise their grammar.

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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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Methodology: individualizing in groups

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

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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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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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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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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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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: yummy yummy yummy!

An interesting way to teach basic food vocabulary at lower levels is to also include some colloquial expressions such as ‘Yummy!’ ‘I’m starving!’ and ‘Yuk!' Once students know a dialogue you can easily substitute words to practise the names of different foods.

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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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Teaching writing using the internet

Advice and suggestions about teaching writing using the internet

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Methodology: teaching intonation with Japanese students

Advice and suggestions on how to teach intonation with Japanese students.