All Teaching Notes articles – Page 33
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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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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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Imaginative materials: yummy yummy yummy!
An interesting way to teach basic food vocabulary at lower levels is to also include some colloquial expressions such as ‘Yummy!’ ‘I’m starving!’ and ‘Yuk!' Once students know a dialogue you can easily substitute words to practise the names of different foods.
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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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Snakes and ladders
An American English worksheet to play a board game by putting the correct missing word in sentences.
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Snakes and ladders
A British English worksheet to play a board game by putting the correct phrasal verbs in sentences.
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The last word
A British English worksheet to find the contraction that completes each pair of sentences.
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One-to-one methodology: Six practical tips for longer lessons
Jim Scrivener offers six useful teaching tips to prevent 'teacher burnout' during longer one-to-one classes.
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One-to-one lessons: Read and report
In this lesson, Lindsay Clandfield provides tips and ideas for using a reading text with a one-to-one student.
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One-to-one lessons: Think of someone who …
In this lesson, Lindsay Clandfield provides tips and ideas for adapting the classic 'Find someone who ...' activity for a one-to-one class.
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Do you like working under pressure?
To speak about work skills and preferences and choose suitable jobs.