Jim Scrivener

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  TKT Tip 08: Module 3 – Categorizing learners' mistakes

  Jim Scrivener looks in detail at a question from Module 3 of the TKT – Managing the teaching and learning process.

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  TKT Tip 07: Module 1 – Learning strategies

  Jim Scrivener looks in detail at a question from Module 1 of TKT – Language and background to language learning and teaching.

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  TKT Tip 06: Module 3 – Teacher roles

  Jim Scrivener looks in detail at a question from Module 3 of the TKT – Managing the teaching and learning process.

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  TKT Tip 05: Module 2 – Writing a lesson plan

  Jim Scrivener looks in detail at a question from Module 2 of the TKT – Lesson planning.

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  TKT Tip 04: Module 1 – Phonemes

  Jim Scrivener looks in detail at a question from Module 1 of the TKT – Language and background to language learning and teaching.

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  TKT Tip 03: Module 2 – Lesson planning

  Jim Scrivener looks in detail at a question from Module 2 of the TKT – Lesson planning.

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  TKT Tip 02: Module 1 – Writing subskills

  Jim Scrivener looks in detail at a question from Module 1 of the TKT – Language and background to language learning and teaching.

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  TKT Tip 01: Module 1 – Types of nouns

  Jim Scrivener looks in detail at a question from Module 1 of TKT – Language and background to language learning and teaching.

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  Imaginative materials: Receipts

  Do you keep your receipts? Jim Scrivener presents some innovative ideas for using these in the classroom, including role-plays, crime-solving and guessing games!

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  Grammar: Noun phrases

  Jim Scrivener presents some ideas for encouraging students to think about and practise longer noun phrases.

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  General: Learners look at learning

  This month Jim Scrivener talks about how teachers can encourage their students to become more aware of the learning process.

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  Vocabulary: Telling the time

  Some ideas from Jim Scrivener for practising telling the time using clocks and students' own watches.

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  Grammar: Doctor Who?

  Here are four games from Jim Scrivener based around the theme of finding out who someone is or who did something. Great for five-minute fillers, or end-of-term lessons!

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  Imaginative materials: ideas for using advent calendars

  In the run up to Christmas, why not take a look at some of Jim Scrivener's exciting ideas for using advent calendars in the classroom. 

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  Grammar: I've been waiting for ages

  Tips and ideas for working with the present perfect continuous.

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  Imaginative materials: radio radio

  The radio is a tremendous resource of listening material and the internet has suddenly opened this world up for classroom use. Instead of listening to the crackling and fading of shortwave transmissions, it’s now possible to save clear copies of programmes from all around the world. Here are some ideas ...

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  General: Guided tours

  Wouldn’t it be nice to get out of the classroom sometimes? If your school permits it, and if your class is of a suitably manageable size, there are many interesting and useful things that you can do outside your normal room.

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  Learning Teaching

  The revised and extended edition of the ever-popular 1994 edition addresses the most important, challenging and interesting situations of the English classroom and provides assistance to coping with them.

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  One-to-one methodology: Six practical tips for longer lessons

  Jim Scrivener offers six useful teaching tips to prevent 'teacher burnout' during longer one-to-one classes.

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  Debate: Is it possible to teach grammar?

  Jim Scrivener has twenty-five years' teaching experience and if he's still unsure of how to teach grammar, is it possible at all?

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