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Category Archives: useful links
Jennifer Aniston, Emirates and an English lesson
Tailoring your teaching to each and every student is fantastic, no doubt. And I am a big fan of course. But isn’t it nice to have something up your sleeve, something that would work for everyone? It’s not often the … Continue reading
Posted in authentic materials, ELT, intermediate, lesson plans, lesson starters, materials writing, Uncategorized, useful links, vocabulary
Tagged commercials, Friends, inspiration, movies, series, travelling
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learning grammar through context
putting grammar into context. Recently I’ve been struggling (not for the first time, obviously) to find some nice way to teach/ revise a grammar topic, and by “nice way” I mean something different from exercises (which are great, but mostly … Continue reading
Posted in lesson plans, materials writing, speaking, useful links
Tagged English, ESL, ESP, Games, speaking, teaching, technology
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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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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
“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
getting our students to focus on success
next time I get a new student, I’ll add one more point to my long-established 1st class procedures. it will be the GROW model suggested in “from English teacher to learner coach”. GROW stands for: goal -the end point where … Continue reading
preparing for a grammar lesson (refreshing passive voice in an applicable way)
Last time I checked, there were not too many materials for teaching Passive. I mean, for teaching Passive adequately, and in a practical and possible-to-take-out-of-the-class manner. Somehow, speaking about animals, doing a geography quiz or discussing a process of coins … Continue reading
using Realtimeboard for teaching English online
I want to share an absolutely fantastic tool for online use: Realtimeboard.com As I already told, now I teach online, using Skype. When I was preparing for my first online lesson, I was feeling very uneasy – first of all, … Continue reading
How to learn any language in six months: Chris Lonsdale at TEDxLing
absolutely great talk on what you should do to FINALLY learn a language! I can relate to almost every word he says. Should be shown to any language learner…
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