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Category Archives: teaching higher levels
NEW Year Resolutions: how to keep them? WORKSHEET
It’s that time of the year again! All those Christmassy and New-Yeary (is there even such a word?) topics are on the rise and getting a lot of traction. But having discussed all my favorite things and done all my … Continue reading
Posted in authentic materials, ELT, lesson plans, teaching higher levels
Tagged New Year, Resolutions
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“the Apprentice” as a business English resource
On the lookout for some video material for your Business English students, but have run out of the coursebook resources? Want them to watch and discuss smth (and it better be authentic) but series or TED talks are not exactly … Continue reading
Starting lessons in a new way
the right beginning of the lesson always sets the right mood for the rest of it, doesn’t it? So recently I got a little tired of just informal chit-chat during the first minutes of my one-to-one lessons, and it got … Continue reading
Retelling the text without noticing it, a trick?)
I’ve been a firm believer in deep and profound work with texts for a long time. No need to repeat that it (and “texts”, obviously can stand for listening/ videos) has tons of benefits, acquiring vocabulary from the context and … Continue reading
A Direct TV commercial to teach narrative tenses
Coming back to post about a commercial (or rather, a series of commercials) that can be used as a tool to train (or refresh) narrative tenses. The good thing about this commercial is that it describs and follows a chain … Continue reading
Posted in authentic materials, grammar, intermediate, lesson starters, teaching higher levels, useful links
Tagged commercials, commercials for ESL, EFL, ELT, English, English as a foreign or second language, fun activities, grammar, intermediate, minimal preparation, narrative tenses, one-to-one, storytelling, upper-intermediate, Video
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Used to and other patterns – rethought and put into practice
In the morning today I had a chance to see how my substitution table from the previous post worked. I knew my student would still be struggling with all the 4 patters (get used to, be used to, used to, … Continue reading
Posted in authentic materials, grammar, grammar games, teaching higher levels, vocabulary
Tagged get used to, grammar, one-to-one, patterns, used to
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Intermediate+ speaking and reading worksheet:How to learn a new language: 7 secrets from TED translators
If you ask me, I like to reflect (and inspire my students to do the same) on learning languages and what works and what doesn’t, so I’m always happy to offer to my students such opportunities. Here is a worksheet … Continue reading
Posted in authentic materials, lesson plans, materials writing, reading, speaking, teaching higher levels
Tagged advanced, authentic materials, business English, discussions, EFL, ELT, English, English as a foreign or second language, English language, ESL, Reading, reading lesson, speaking, speaking lesson, TED, TED talks, TED talks for ELT
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business&office buzzwords: article and worksheet
Last year I came across a real gem of an article – at least it looks like one from an ESL teacher’s perspective. I am sure it was not the use the author of the article had in mind, but … Continue reading
a more personalised approach to ING and TO
The gerund vs infinitive grammar has always seemed quite tricky for teaching to me: I have always felt there wasn’t enough really good materials, especially for the one-to-one situation. Of course there are all kinds of gap-fills and contextualised gap-fills (like … Continue reading
Posted in grammar, grammar games, speaking, teaching higher levels
Tagged EFL, ELT, English as a foreign or second language, English as a second or foreign language, English language, fluency activity, Gerund, gerund and infinitive, grammar, Infinitive, lesson starter, personalized grammar
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“8 secrets of success” TED-talk lesson plan
here is the lesson plan based on the TED talk by Richard St John that I referred to in my previous post about my teaching in a field. Hope you’ll find it useful. The talk itself conveniently takes only 3 minutes, … Continue reading
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