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Home » Professional Development » Methodology: Tips for Teachers

General

Ideally, photo of a teacher with a coursebook. If too hard, photo of a teacher with books or photo of a teacher reading a book.

General: teaching with coursebooks

By Jim Scrivener

If your relationship with your coursebook is going a little stale, here are a baker’s dozen of ideas to inspire and provoke you.

General: Learners look at learning

By Jim Scrivener

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

General: Guided tours

By Jim Scrivener

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.

All General

Methodology

Photo of students in a classroom working together with their teacher.

Methodology: absolute beginners

By Scott Thornbury

An article offering suggestions and advice on teaching absolute beginners.

Methodology: Teaching a student whose skills are at different levels

By Adrian Tennant

Adrian Tennant offers advice to a teacher who is concerned about how to support a student whose levels differ from skill to skill.

Methodology: Motivating teachers whose business students miss class

By Alex Case

Alex Case offers advice on how Business English and ESP teachers can stay motivated despite poor class attendance.

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Grammar

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Grammar teaching: Exploiting texts

By Tim Bowen

An article by Tim Bowen on ways of exploiting authentic texts for grammar practice.

Photo that suggests the concept of task-based learning. If this is too abstract, photo that illustrates the concept of doing a learning task.

Grammar teaching: Task-based grammar teaching

By Lindsay Clandfield

Lindsay Clandfield discusses task-based grammar teaching and provides a lesson plan based on this methodology which teaches the grammar point used to.

Photo that illustrates the concept of teaching grammar.

Grammar teaching: Little words, big grammar

By Adrian Tennant

Adrian Tennant explains how the 'little words' (those that make up approximately fifty percent of written and spoken language and grammar) are extremely important.

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Vocabulary

Ideally, photo of a teacher writing words on the board. If too hard, photo of the Macmillan dictionary.

Vocabulary: 2000 most common words

By Scott Thornbury

A discussion about teaching the 2000 most common English words.

Vocabulary: Telling the time

By Jim Scrivener

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

Vocabulary: teaching make and do

By Jonathan Marks

Advice and teaching suggestions of how to overcome the confusion between 'make' and 'do.'

All Vocabulary

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