All Elementary articles – Page 63
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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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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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Elementary: Jumbled biographies
An American English worksheet to use the past simple to reconstruct biographies of famous musicians.
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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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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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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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Methodology: beginners in company
Advice and suggestions of how to begin a Business English course.
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ESOL beginner lessons: Joe and the poor man
This lesson aims to help students make simple present tense questions (not in the 3rd person).
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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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ArticleESOL 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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Teaching toolJazz Chants: I Can Play Basketball
Use this useful jazz chant to boost your students' pronunctiation and intonation.
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Is there a bank?
An American English worksheet to practice asking and answering questions about places and to practice reading a map.
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Reading lesson plans: Bamboo
Students complete a series of activities based on a text about bamboo.
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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.