ELT CONTENT UPDATE

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: 05 December 2008

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Fortune teller
This lesson, suitable for pre-intermediate students, follows on from presentation and controlled practice of the future ‘will'. It is an extended role-play activity which is simple to set up and fun for the students.
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Story telling: The language teacher's oldest technique
In this article Mario Rinvolucri explores a range of story telling techniques that he uses in the classroom and gives some insights into why these techniques are effective.
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Conference on Innovations in Teaching Children & Teenagers
Organised by the British Council and IATEFL’s Young Learners & Learning Technologies Special Interest Groups. A conference for all teachers of English. This conference will look at three of the most important topics in the rapidly changing world of English Teaching.
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Concept checking questions
I have tried to find the books, but it's quite difficult to find them. Is there any reference books that related with my topic from all of you?
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Three Tomorrows: Lesson Plan
Three stories to make you think, set in the near future, 100 years and 1500 years from now. The end of spam - a curse or a blessing? Are people robots? What happens to the last brain in the world?  
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Desert island activity
This is a speaking activity based on the theme of being stranded on a desert island. It is suitable for pre-intermediate students upwards. Students design an island, create rules for it and decide who gets to live on it by way of interview.
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Presenting business vocabulary to beginners
Pre-selecting, grading and presenting business vocabulary - Is this the way forward? Traditionally curriculum developers and materials writers have assumed it would be worthwhile to make a selection out of a set of to-be-learned vocabulary items that they would then grade
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Conference on Bilingual Acquisition in Early Childhood
An international conference on Bilingual Acquisition in Early Childhood will be held at the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) from 11-12 December 2008. The conference is organized by the newly established Childhood Bilingualism Research Centre at CUHK
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Our fourth guest teacher is Paula Belló from Argentina
Paula will be keeping a blog, contributing to discussions and telling us about teaching in Argentina. You can read Paula's biography and an interview with her.
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Using stories in the classroom
This lesson is aimed at lower intermediate students. It could be adapted for use with higher and lower levels. This particular lesson uses an adapted version of ‘The Emperor's new clothes' by Hans Christian Andersen, but other stories can be used in the same way.
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