If you are a busy English language teacher or trainer looking for support and development materials for your classroom, we can help you with this weekly collection of links to free materials from our British Council websites for teachers.
This week our Guest Teacher, Olwyn Alexander writes about the 'pre-sessional experience' of working in a UK university.
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These teaching tips were written to accompany the six-level young learners’ course Primary Colours, but are relevant to anyone teaching young children.
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At present I am working as ICT coordinator. I am supposed to help teachers to use Web 2.0 tools in their ESL (English as a Second Language) classes and it is not an easy task! I have to deal with two problems.
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The term teacher education encompasses both training and developmental processes. Teacher educators can be involved in the preparation, management, delivery and evaluation of a range of training and developmental tasks.
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Many teachers and educationalists argue that a friendly and relaxed atmosphere in the classroom helps learners delvelop more quickly, but is it really possible for teachers and students to be friends?
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As this will be my last blog during my stint as Guest Writer, and as the last couple of discussions have got quite theoretical, I thought I'd end on a more practical note, by suggesting ways of getting students talking using minimal means. This is a basic tenet of the Dogme ELT approach.
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In the UK we have a reputation for being polite and appreciating good manners. You can have fun with your children in many different role play scenarios, getting them to practise what to do and what not to do in England.
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Graded readers or ‘readers' are books that have had the language level simplified to help second language learners read them. The language is graded for vocabulary, complexity of grammar structures and also by the number of words. They are made to cater for all levels from beginners through to advance.
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This week our Guest Teacher, Olwyn Alexander writes about 'EAP for the ELT teacher'. Is it a step towards a more secure future?
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The alphabet is one of the fundamental teaching points at primary level and needs to be frequently recycled and practised using a variety of different activities.
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According to this view, a method is one of a set of possible practical implementations of choices made at the level of ideology. That is to say, all methods are ideological at heart, and no method is “disinterested” (Pennycook 1989).
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Teachers from round the world talk about how they have developed as teachers. They offer advice to help other teachers.
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I am interested in finding out more about what the place of grammar in language teaching is currently?
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Sometimes my learners get really inspired by writing tasks and produce work where they really want to communicate something, so it seems natural to respect this and to give them a wider audience. There are many ways to publish writing work, ranging from something as simple as photocopying work as handouts for the class to publishing on a blog.
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This game is good to revise and practise structures in the first conditional. The teacher begins with a sentence, for example “If I go out tonight, I’ll go to the cinema.” The next person in the circle must use the end of the previous sentence to begin their own sentence.
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A recent independent research report (ImpaCT2) showed that ICT can help raise standards. It looked at the relationship between pupils’ use of ICT and their performance in exams. High ICT users performed better than low ICT users at key stages 2 and 3.
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