All Elementary articles – Page 58

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Professional development: reflective teaching

A discussion on ways to improve teaching through systematic inquiry.

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Methodology: writing with linking devices: 'yet'

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

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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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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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Methodology: using dictation in English language teaching

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

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Spot the difference

An American English worksheet to practice asking and answering questions with is there/are there, there is/there are.

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Spot the differences

An American English worksheet to find ten differences between two pictures by asking and answering questions.

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Spot the differences

A British English worksheet to find ten differences between two pictures by asking and answering questions.

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What did you have for dinner last night?

An American English worksheet to practice using the past simple in yes/no questions and information questions.

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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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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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Reading lesson plans: Dogs

Students complete a series of activities based on a text about dogs.

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Do-it-yourself

Put the letters into the correct order to find the names of parts of the home.

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Stress dominoes

An American English worksheet to play a game of dominoes by matching names of countries with their stress patterns.

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Mathematical dominoes

To review numbers 1 - 20 and the alphabet.

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Travel dominoes

An American English worksheet to play a game of dominoes by matching words that go together.

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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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Don't do it - it's unlucky!

A British English worksheet to match the pictures with the correct superstition.

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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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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.