All Teaching Notes articles – Page 34
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Phrasal verbs: Teaching phrasal verbs using a literary text
Using authentic texts can be a motivating way to teach phrasal verbs. This lesson plan presents eight new phrasal verbs using a literary text as a starting point. The learners deduce the meaning of the phrasal verbs from their context, and then write a follow up story using more new phrasal verbs.
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Skills: longer reads
Students who do a lot of extensive reading in English seem to make substantial progress. Here are some general ideas for starting to use longer texts.
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Project management
In this lesson by Barney Barrett, students examine, discuss and use the language of project planning and management applied to an ongoing project at the learner’s company.
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A manufacturing process
To describe a manufacturing process and decide on the layout of a manufacturing plant.
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Who's at the meeting?
To exchange basic information about a group of participants at an international meeting.
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Minimal resources: Teaching vocabulary
Adrian Tennant gives us some useful tips and ideas for teaching vocabulary with minimal resources.
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ArticleSkills: the same old song
Songs are a popular resource with teachers and learners alike – but, when it comes to exploiting them in class, why on earth does it always seem to be gap-fills? Here are a few alternative ideas.
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ArticleTeaching one-to-one
Useful articles, tips and lesson plans that you can adapt for teaching one-to-one business English classes.
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ArticlePhrasal verbs: Teaching phrasal verbs using an oral text
This lesson combines teaching phrasal verbs as a thematic set with teaching phrasal verbs using a text. Students listen to an oral text on morning routines, and use the original text to write their own morning routine.
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ArticleSkills: teaching phonics: schwa
The schwa – the only phoneme with its own name – is important for learners to recognise and produce as it is the most common vowel sound in English. Here are some awareness-raising and practice ideas.
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ArticleSkills: teaching phonics: sounds and symbols
Phonemes can be difficult for learners and teachers. Here are a few ideas that could help teachers as well as learners become more comfortable when working with phonemes.