ENGLISH TEACHING UPDATES

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: 21 November 2008

LATEST UPDATES

Mario's Blog
We are very pleased to welcome Mario Rinvolucri as our fourth Guest Contributor. You can read and discuss Mario's first article on comprehension questions, and also follow and comment on his blog entries on the site.
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How useful are comprehension questions?
If it were not felt to be a sensible procedure why would course book writers supply comprehension questions in large quantities?
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A simple listening exercise around animals
The point of this simple exercise is for you to realise and for the students to realise how creative and varied their responses are to simple words.
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Group segregation for classroom teaching
What I need to understand is shall I be forming groups of students having similar English speaking skills or of students with different
calibre in English.
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Bonfire Night
Bonfire Night is celebrated throughout Britain on the evening of the 5th of November with firework displays.
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I need a song and its lyrics
I am required to find a song which teaches a grammar item. I will use it for some young learners. I couldn't find any appropriate one.
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Orthography
In language learning orthography can have two meanings. One is the way a language is spelt and the other is the way the letters are written.
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Algorithms
This is a whole-class speaking activity, needing no preparation, that gets the students practising question forms in a way that is useful practice as well as fun.
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Native Speaker Accent
First of all, I'd like to say I agree in a certain way with each of those who posted their comments, but I would like to focus a bit on my personal experience.
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Hay Festival Segovia kits
These three, short kits were the result of a collaborative event in Segovia, Spain, between the organisers of the Hay Festival Segovia 2008 and the British Council, Spain.
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Using riddles or jokes in English teaching
Humorous people can be more popular than those who are not. This theory adapts to the English classes too. As a student, I would like the teachers who told jokes often rather those who are always copying the same words from the textbook.
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