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Skills work

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    Skills: assessing speaking skills
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    Skills: bringing dialogues alive
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    Skills: dictation for teaching English
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    Skills: Glorious gap-fills
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    Skills: graded readers
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    Skills: longer reads
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    Skills: responding to real-life events
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    Skills: teaching English intonation
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    Skills: teaching English using anecdotes
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    Skills: teaching listening in English
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    Skills: teaching phonics: schwa
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    Skills: teaching phonics: sounds and symbols
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    Skills: teaching resources: sound effects
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    Skills: telephoning in English
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    Skills: the same old song
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    Skills: under the spell of spelling
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    Skills: whole-class discussions in English

Skills work

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Jim Scrivener provides tips and imaginative lesson ideas for teaching speaking, listening, reading and writing in English.

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    Photo of a teacher and a student having a formal conversation, e.g.: in an exam environment. If too hard, then just a teacher and a student having a conversation.

    Skills: assessing speaking skills

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    Skills: bringing dialogues alive

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    Skills: dictation for teaching English

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    Skills: Glorious gap-fills

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    Skills: graded readers

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    Skills: longer reads

  • 8

    Skills: responding to real-life events

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    Skills: teaching English intonation

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    Skills: teaching English using anecdotes

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    Skills: teaching listening in English

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    Photo of children writing in their notebook  or typing on a computer.

    Skills: teaching phonics: schwa

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    Photo of children speaking to each  other in a classroom.

    Skills: teaching phonics: sounds and symbols

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    Skills: teaching resources: sound effects

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    Skills: telephoning in English

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    Photo of a teacher preparing a class, ideally with a laptop and a headset.

    Skills: the same old song

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    Skills: under the spell of spelling

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    Skills: whole-class discussions in English

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