All Teaching Notes articles – Page 29
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One-to-one methodology: Situation one – dealing with students who just want to chat
How do you encourage a one-to-one student to focus on grammar, vocabulary or pronunciation, when all they want to do in their lessons is chat? Alex Case provides tips for dealing with this situation, along with a sample lesson plan.
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General: teaching idioms and collocations
Break away from predictable coursebook topics! How about basing a whole morning round a single word? These ideas would work for many items.
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Communication skills
To discuss techniques for giving a presentation, chairing a meeting and writing a report.
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Company structure
To talk about company organization, people's responsibilities and who they report to.
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Grammar: teaching comparatives in English
Coursebook lessons on comparative forms often ask students to make random comparisons between things for no obvious reason. Here are some typical real-life contexts when we are genuinely likely to compare.
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Imaginative materials: using computers to teach English
Mulitmedia presentation programs (e.g. Microsoft PowerPoint) are a good way of storing and showing images and text in unusual ways – as a high-tech slide show. Here are some teaching ideas, all suitable for classrooms with only a single computer.
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Conditional dominoes
An American English worksheet to play a game of dominoes by matching two halves of a conditional sentence.
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Grammar: teaching conditionals
Conditional structures that begin If + present tense offer lots of possibilities for interesting tasks, presentations or practice activities. Here are a few ideas.
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The marketing consultant
To gather information and then present a profile of a product and a marketing strategy for it.
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General: controlling lesson time
It can feel unsatisfactory to suddenly rush an activity at the end of a lesson. Here are some strategies for taking control of time and shortening over-long stages.
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ArticleGeneral: teaching with coursebooks
If your relationship with your coursebook is going a little stale, here are a baker’s dozen of ideas to inspire and provoke you.
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General: holiday English courses
Many teachers do summer work teaching on short intensive courses. Such courses often have more of a holiday atmosphere than normal classes and teachers may look for jollier, summery activities.
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IELTS: Describing data-line graphs—An introduction
The aim of this is to help familiarize students with doing Task 1 in the academic writing module in the IELTS exam.
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Warmer/FillerFirst Day: Name games
Here are some fun games to help your new class get to know each other and learn their classmates’ names.