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.
This is the first in our new series of video tips. What do you think is important when you tell a story to young learners? Watch the video of our six tips then if you have more tips to share, leave them below.
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Read Tessa Woodward’s last blog entry for TeachingEnglish, in which she reflects on her experience as a blogger on the site: ‘I must say I do miss the face to faceness of communication. I wonder sometimes, did the person that I wrote to find my message funny, appropriate, useful?’
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This idea comes from a short story by Raymond Carver called 'Put yourself in my shoes'. This activity encourages creativity, in a subtle way, by giving the first line of the story for students to build on. It can be simplified according to level.
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Now English is the language of the world. Every educated person should acquire it either as a native, second or foreign language. Under these circumstances is it feasible or desirable to think of having Received Pronunciation anywhere in the world?
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‘Sometimes I find it difficult to manage time especially when teaching grammar. A good teacher always knows how to manage his time.’ What do you think? Join in the discussion and give some advice in the forums on TeachingEnglish.
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ESP (English for Specific Purposes) has been referred to as ‘applied ELT’ as the content and aims of any course are determined by the needs of a specific group of learners. Read more about it here in this ‘Specialist Areas’ part of the TeachingEnglish site.
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In the first article I wrote for this guest writer spot, I looked at all the basic questions we can ask about being an English language teacher trainer, educator or mentor. I chose the question for discussion, 'How do I know if I am ready to be a teacher trainer?' This time I would like to take the question, 'How can I do my job?'.
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Writing stories is an exciting and creative activity and yet students often seem resistant to undertaking this task. I think it is important to break the task down into small stages so students don’t get discouraged, and place emphasis on the creative part.
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Compiled by Shelagh Rixon and Richard Smith of Warwick University, the Directory of UK ELT Research 2005-08 contains information on 857 research outputs from 52 institutions. This covers books and chapters in books, articles in journals, conference papers, doctoral theses, and unpublished research, as well as funded projects.
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There are lots of activities for Halloween on LearnEnglish Kids, the British Council’s site for young learners, which you can use with your students to mark the occasion. They range from a song about a Scary Skeleton to a story about a Haunted House, from a Halloween facts quiz to a selection of terrific games and activities to do!
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Sometimes I find it difficult to manage time especially when teaching grammar. A good teacher always knows how to manage his time, but as far as I’m concerned, I wonder whether they have understood the lesson, that's why I tend to do a lot of drills and a lot of exercises; because of that, I lack time. What should I do?
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One of the wonderful things about a site like this is that if we, as teacher trainers, have a question we want to ask of our professional community, we can put it out on the ‘cyber waves’ and have the chance of getting responses from all over the world.
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