All Teenagers articles – Page 74

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Tom Sawyer: Chapters 9 & 10: Audio and activities

The ninth and tenth chapters of this beginner-level Macmillan Reader are now available for all Staff Room members. Tom and Joe decide to become pirates, then attend a funeral and a trial...

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Listening matters: Process listening

Adrian Tennant takes a look at the issues surrounding teaching listening, gives advice on how teachers can help their students and provides some practical ideas for the classroom.

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American English vocabulary lessons: the letter M

M is for money and movies.

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Socializing in English

In this basic business skills lesson by Sara Helm, students use a modal verb wheel to create sentences and practise functional dialogues they can use in a social context.

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The History of Chocolate

A topic-based lesson about the history and manufacture of chocolate.

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Listening matters: Top-down and bottom-up listening

Adrian Tennant explores two concepts relating to how students process listening texts – 'top down' and 'bottom up' – and gives some practical ideas for the classroom.

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Speaking matters: Developing and dealing with accuracy

Adrian Tennant presents an article covering what we mean by accuracy and how it can be developed effectively. The article rounds off with some practical ideas for the classroom.

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Lesson Share: Discussions: Proverbs

A discussion and game using proverbs.

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Lesson Share: Grammar: Yoga in the classroom

An original take on teaching imperatives. This active drama lesson provides a great opportunity for bodily-kinaesthetic learners in the classroom.

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Vocabulary: Telling the time

Some ideas from Jim Scrivener for practising telling the time using clocks and students' own watches.

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Tom Sawyer: Chapters 7 & 8: Audio and activities

The seventh and eighth chapters of this beginner-level Macmillan Reader are now available for all Staff Room members. Tom and Huck write their promise in blood and Muff Potter is sent to jail...

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Grammar: Doctor Who?

Here are four games from Jim Scrivener based around the theme of finding out who someone is or who did something. Great for five-minute fillers, or end-of-term lessons!

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Lesson Share: Grammar activities: I have never ...

An activity to revise the present perfect and to share personal information.

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Lesson Share: Grammar: Tag teams

To practise making tag questions by guessing information about other students.

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Lesson Share: Grammar: On the cards

Activities to practise using the past form of irregular verbs.

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First writing paper: part 1

A series of steps, alternately pairwork and teacher-led, to raise awareness of dealing with essay writing and show a way of producing effective answers.

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Imaginative materials: ideas for using advent calendars

In the run up to Christmas, why not take a look at some of Jim Scrivener's exciting ideas for using advent calendars in the classroom. 

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Cambridge English Preliminary: Speaking Part 3

Guidance for teachers preparing candidates for Part 3 of the Speaking paper of the Cambridge Preliminary Exam.

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Thank you!

A short speaking lesson by Lindsay Clandfield on the theme of thanking.

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Lesson Share: Speaking: Murder in the classroom

Students take on roles in a murder mystery game and work together to discover the identity and motive of the murderer.