All Reference Material articles – Page 4
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Pronunciation skills: Loosening the ‘grip’ of L1 pronunciation
ELT Pronunciation expert Adrian Underhill looks at the emergence of the ‘L1 grip’ and how best to tackle it.
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ArticleAssessment matters: Designing your own tests
Adrian Tennant explores some of the issues behind designing your own tests and gives some practical examples of how to go about it.
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Pronunciation skills: The chart
ELT Pronunciation expert Adrian Underhill introduces us to the phonemic chart and why it’s important to familiarize ourselves with sounds when teaching or learning a language.
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Pronunciation skills: The muscle buttons and vowels /iː/ or /uː/
In these two videos, Adrian Underhill explains the physicality of pronunciation and the use of ‘muscle buttons’ to help us vocalize sounds such as vowels /i:/ and /u:/.
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Pronunciation skills: What accent should I teach?
ELT Pronunciation expert Adrian Underhill addresses your practical concerns on accents, RP and student identity.
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Pronunciation skills: Accents and the L1 grip
Which accent should I teach with? This is a common question that Adrian Underhill answers in the video below as well as tackling the subject of the L1 grip and how to escape it!
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Grammar and vocabulary: What is Standard English?
A discussion and explanation on the concept of Standard English.
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Raksha Bandhan
This is a sentimental Hindu custom within the family marking the love and affection between brothers and sisters, celebrated mostly in India. It comes from an ancient story referring to a battle between the gods and the demons. The King of the Gods, Indra, was unhappy with the battles. His ...
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Ash Wednesday
Ash Wednesday marks the first day of Lent for western Christian churches. Traditionally, a mark on the forehead is made with the ashes from burned palms as a symbol of death, sorrow and sin. The marking also reminds churchgoers where the ashes come from. It is a reminder of baptism, ...
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Assessment matters: Exams extra (upper-intermediate to proficiency)
In this article, Adrian Tennant takes a look at some of the exams materials available on onestopenglish outside of the main 'Exams' section and suggests how they could be used in your teaching.
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Assessment matters: Exams extra (elementary to intermediate)
In this article, Adrian Tennant takes a look at some of the exams materials available on onestopenglish outside of the main 'Exams' section and suggests how they could be used in your teaching.
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ArticleAssessment matters: Self-assessment and 'Can do' statements
Adrian Tennant takes a look at self-assessment and, in particular, ‘Can do’ statements: a current buzzword and term employed by the Common European Framework of Reference (CEFR).
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Editorial: Getting hands on!
This month Keith explores the range of fabulous resources - new and old - that help learners learn by 'doing'. From practical experiments to presentations; whole class speaking activities to colouring and cuts outs - there's a lot to engage and excite your kinaesthetic learners.
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ArticleAssessment matters: Portfolios
Adrian Tennant explains how student portfolios can be organized and maintained, and outlines some of the advantages and disadvantages of using them for assessment.
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TKT: Content-obligatory language
In the first part of her series on language for CLIL, Kay Bentley explains what content-obligatory language is, how it affects CLIL teaching and what do you need to know about content-obligatory language for TKT: CLIL.
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The language dimension of CLIL
Keith Kelly argues that language, and an explicit focus on it, is at the heart of CLIL methodology.
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Process skills and data-handling for CLIL
Jean Brewster looks at how learners have to develop process skills to interact successfully with content. The benefits of using graphic organizers is explored with practical examples and accompanying worksheets to help you try out some of the techniques examined.
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ArticleAssessment matters: Assessing tasks and lessons
Adrian Tennant looks at ways in which teachers can assess lessons in order to judge the success of both their classroom delivery and students’ learning.
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Training CLIL Teachers: The Zurich Approach
A brief look at key skills for training CLIL subject and language teachers in the context of Zurich‘s University of Teacher Education