All Elementary articles – Page 54
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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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ArticleBeginning 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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ArticleBeginning 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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Life's big moments
An American English worksheet to recycle the present simple, past simple and future with going to.
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Elementary: Jumbled biographies
An American English worksheet to use the past simple to reconstruct biographies of famous musicians.
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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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ArticleImaginative 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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Book titles
A British English worksheet to use the pictures to match the books with their authors.
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Reading lesson plans: Bridges
Students complete a series of activities based on a text about bridges.
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British English: Speaking – worksheet and teacher's notes
Students practise asking and answering typical questions in English oral tests.
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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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Minimal resources: Building dialogue
Scott Thornbury gives us some great tips and ideas for building dialogue in speaking activities.