All Teaching Notes articles – Page 31
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Imaginative materials: teaching English using timetables
Printed train or bus timetables are often available as free leaflets or can be downloaded and printed from the internet. This simple resource can be used in a number of ways.
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Imaginative materials: using movies to teach English
Most students enjoy watching a good movie, whether at the cinema or on TV. Here are a few ideas for making use of their interest and knowledge to create some unusual activities.
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Skills: telephoning in English
For many learners using the telephone in English is a particularly nerve-wracking experience. As well as all the standard "telephone phrases" learners need strategies for getting a failing interaction to work. Here are some ideas for confidence-building in class.
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Skills: teaching English intonation
Many teachers find intonation difficult to teach. As a result they may avoid it. But intonation can be fun to work with - and it can make other language areas such as grammar easier to teach. Here are some ideas.
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Skills: teaching listening in English
Modern coursebooks provide some excellent recorded material, but it can be exciting to supplement this with more unusual sources of listening work. Here are some ideas.
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Enough and plenty
A British English worksheet to complete activities using the correct adjectives of quantity.
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Telephone enquiries
To role play a telephone conversation between an employee at a credit card company and a potential new customer.
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Minimal resources: The immediate environment
Scott Thornbury offers some valuable tips and ideas for using your immediate environment to make imaginative language lessons.
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IELTS: Structuring an essay
An integrated skills lesson with the overall aim of preparing students to write an essay on the issue of public transport/car ownership.
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Skills: responding to real-life events
When there is a tragic event in the world teachers often feel the need to address it in some way in classroom time. Finding a way to do this appropriately and sensitively can sometimes be hard. Help is here.
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ArticleMinimal resources: Everyday objects
Jonathan Marks gives us some ideas for activities that make use of everyday objects that people carry around with them.
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Pronunciation exercises: Pre-intermediate
A selection of pronunciation exercises for pre-intermediate students.
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ArticlePronunciation exercises: Starter/beginner
Pronunciation exercises for zero beginner and false beginner students.
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Imaginative materials: fab phone features
Mobile phones have many features and can provide great opportunities for activities. Here are a few ideas to get the most out mobiles in lessons.
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ArticleGeneral: the first lesson of the year
Even if the teacher and class have all worked together before, it is still useful to have activities to welcome everyone back and mark the start of the new year.
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ArticleWriting skills: formal and informal writing
To enable students to break down the different features of formal and informal English by working through a step-by-step text transformation at their own pace.