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If you are an English language teacher or trainer then we can help to provide you with materials and ideas to use in your classroom as well as new pedagogical articles each week.

Next update 23 May 2008

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In this section you can find the best educational technology and ELT related news
and articles from around the net.
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Revision chocolate bars
This is a version of the popular game Battleships. In this version, instead of blowing up battleships, teams have to find hidden 'chocolate bars'. I usually do this on the whiteboard.
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Teaching children numbers
Activities range from simple matching and spelling exercises to stories and worksheets to practise really big numbers. The topic also includes lots of fun games including a mind reading number game, a song to practise forming numbers and lots of maths activities.
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Create your development portfolio
A portfolio is a selection of materials which illustrate your professional growth as a teacher. It is a work in progress and helps you to identify, focus and reflect on areas of interest to you as a teacher.
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Distance learning
What are the essential differences between the teaching of English in the classroom (in the face-to-face mode) and teaching English by distance? How can we make teaching of English through distance learning effective?
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Improve your teaching knowledge
Check out the knowledge wiki. This feature of the site helps you to understand ELT related jargon. We have 5 new words added this week.
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Create your teaching English blog.
Now you can create a blog on teaching English to provide a commentary or news on different aspects of teaching English or you may use your blog to reflect on a more personal level (like an online diary) about your experience of teaching English in your country.
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Techniques for form focus after reading
The opening and closing sentences in each paragraph are very important in creating a text that hangs together properly. Try giving learners a version of the text from which these sentences have been removed.
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Grass skirts revision race
This activity gets the students motivated with a competitive revision race. The activity comes complete with a classroom worksheet for you to photocopy
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Specialist areas
The following pages help you develop skills and awareness in more specialist areas such as teacher education, evaluation, materials and curriculum design, English for specific purposes and young learners.
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Academic writing
Hi Colleagues, I'd be thankful if you could share with me your ideas regarding teaching writing skills for IELTS academic applicants
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Poetry in the classroom
Many teachers are keen to use poems in the language classroom other think it is a waste of time. Find out what other teachers think and give us your opinion.
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Question on Teaching English
Hi colleagues, I'd be thankful if you could share with me your ideas regarding teaching writing skills for IELTS academic applicants (I'm teaching some aiming for a band score of 7).
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