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Angel vs Devil

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1 Dec 2009 Download PDF
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This is a great way for students to practice using sequential transitions (Firstly / Furthermore / last but not least).Great for just speaking practice but also presentation or debate classess.

Provide the class with a list of topics (City living / Exercise / Learning English / being single).  Model whole class. The teacher is the Devil and the students the Angel.

1. The teacher (Devil)…

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Story Dominoes

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25 Nov 2009 Download PDF
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Telling stories is great in the classroom. Add a little "imagination" and chance and you have a great recipe!

Story Dominoes is a great concept. Just get a lot of varying pictures. Cut them up and students in groups of three/four, use them to tell "random" stories.

One student turns over a card to begin. Then the next, turns over a card and continues. Lots…

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Accents

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25 Nov 2009 Download PDF
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Exposing students to a wide range of accents of both native and second language speakers is a recipe that must be cooked up for intermediate and advanced learners.

One great place for this would be The Speech Accent Archive . There you can choose mp3 samples from speakers all over the world. They all read the same paragraph so students can just…

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Sentence Stretching

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25 Sep 2009 Download PDF
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This is an excellent writing exercise, getting students to increase the length of their sentences and beginning to use clauses.

Write a simple sentence on the board. Students copy it.

Ex. The dog ran. 

Ask the students questions and the students after each question must rewrite the sentence, answering the question.

Ex. Where? The dog ran .............

      What color of dog? The ........ dog ran to his…

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Torn Pictures…

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14 Sep 2009 Download PDF
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This is a wonderfully simple communicative activity.

Get a pile of nice magazine pictures. Next, tear or cut them into twos. Enough halves for the number of students in your classroom.

Then, give each student half a picture. They have to walk around the class describing their picture and finding their torn "match". Once they find their match, they can sit down.

Make sure to make…

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Guided Writing

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4 Sep 2009 Download PDF
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There are many ways to teach writing but one way that I really think provides enough structure for beginning and developing writers is guided writing.

Give students a text with words missing (usually nouns). In groups or pairs they can complete the text together, guessing the words to be filled in. Better yet, if the story has some context or theme.

If the students are…

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An Activity with a Cell Phone

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3 Sep 2009 Download PDF
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 An Activity with a Cell Phone

 

This activity was done in a workshop for teachers of English working at the DGEP (Direccion General de Escuelas Preparatorias), high school teachers of English.

 

The activity was to show a simple but…

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iLearner.eu – Teaching English with Technology

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2 Sep 2009 Download PDF
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Our Online Learning Center (OLC) allows learners to complete interactive English quizzes and enables the teacher to review his/her students’ attempts and control the learning process.

  • Over 260 (and growing) ready-to-use grammar and vocabulary exercises.
  • Levels: Elementary – Intermediate.
  • Covers all the grammar students need for international exams, such as the PET and FCE.
  • Supplements any course, both in a public school or a private language school.
  • Suitable for one-on-one and distant teaching.
  • FREE.



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Report it! Newspaper reading…

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1 Sep 2009 Download PDF
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I really think it great when a teacher gets the students interested in the world and what's happening there.

You can use the newspaper in many ways but one easy way is to ask a student each day to begin class by reporting 3 things from the news. A new student each day. Ask questions afterwards and have the student write the 3 main…

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Following Instructions from a Special Guest on Video

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27 Aug 2009 Download PDF
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Here's an activity that's a fun way for students to practice listening to instructions and following them. All you need is a large TV in your classroom that can play videos, and a friend or family member from "back home" willing to help out.

Explain to students that you have a "special guest" who's going to help us a bit later, but we need to practice first. Use this practice time…

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