All Teaching Notes articles – Page 25
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Imaginative materials: Texting
Do you get annoyed when your students concentrate on using their mobile phones to text each other rather than focusing on the lesson? Here are five ideas for exploiting text messaging in class.
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Imaginative materials: pets
Pets and other animals play an important role in many learners' lives. Here are some ideas for exploiting the theme.
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Imaginative materials: teaching with simple props: string
Some props don't immediately suggest themselves as useful teaching aids. For example, what could one possibly do with a bag of clothes pegs and a piece of string? Mmm…
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Imaginative materials: teaching with newspapers
Teachers rarely have access to whole class sets of newspapers. Here are six ideas for things you can do using a single copy of a newspaper.
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IELTS reading - worksheet
Activities and suggestions to help students deal with the reading component of the exam.
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IELTS reading - teacher's notes
Activities and suggestions to help students deal with the reading component of the exam.
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IELTS: Interpreting maps - teacher's notes
Help students to prepare for Task 1 in the academic writing component of the IELTS exam.
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ArticleImaginative materials: treasure hunting
How could you create an exciting treasure hunt puzzle for your students? Here are ideas for two kinds of game – a basic chain of clues and letterboxing.
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Understanding paragraph headings
Help students to prepare for the academic reading component of the IELTS exam.
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ArticleGrammar: 'them' and 'they'
An explanation of the use of them and they in different contexts.
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Grammar: word order in passive questions
An article offering an explanation and teaching suggestions on word order in passive questions.
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Grammar: regular and irregular verbs
Practical suggestions for teaching regular and irregular verbs.
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Grammar: teaching the modals 'ought to', 'should', 'must' and 'have to'.
Suggestions for teaching the modals ought to, should, must and have to when talking about suggestion or advice.
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Grammar: practising the present and past simple tenses
Imaginative suggestions for teaching the present and past simple tenses to children.
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Grammar: reporting verb patterns
A discussion and teaching suggestions for reporting verb patterns.
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Grammar: reviewing the present simple
Present simple for habits and routines is a frequently taught item. Here are some new ways of teaching these familiar items.
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ArticleGrammar: an 'A' or 'The'
Choosing the correct article - “a” “an” “the” or Ø (zero article) – is, for many students, an ongoing problem all the way from beginner to advanced classes. Here are a few quick ideas for practising them at lower levels.
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Skills: graded readers
Reading a novel is essentially a private, personal activity – but it can still provide useful classroom work . Here are some ideas for working with graded readers in class.