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Deciding What and When to Correct
I live here for five years.On hearing an incorrect form like this, you have to decide what to do about it. Should it be corrected immediately? Left to form the basis of a remedial lesson? Offered to...
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Teaching Intensive Courses : The Role of On-Line Materials
For some students, learning a language gradually over an extended period is not an option. They need the language now – or even better, yesterday. This may be the case for instance with a student who...
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Teaching British Culture
If you teach teenagers, some of them may be planning on going to Britain this year for a summer course. Especially if they stay with a host family, they’ll be learning far more than the language –...
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Idiomatic English : Geographical Features
Here’s another activity in our series on Teaching Idioms. This time it focuses on idioms referring to geographical features.Quite often, idioms are fairly transparent in meaning. They involve a...
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Teaching Individual Sounds : Part One
Why do language learners have difficulty pronouncing specific sounds in the language they are learning? The answer lies, not surprisingly, in the contrast between their own language and the new...
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Teaching Mixed Ability Groups : A Solution
One of the hardest types of course to deal with is one where the students are of mixed levels, of mixed learning ability, or even both. The teacher has to find a balance between boring the faster, or...
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The Final Five Minutes
How do you close your lessons? In this article guest writer Chris Cotter suggests some useful activities for the last five minutes of any class.A lot of experts have written about structuring a lesson,...
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Teaching Individual Sounds : Part Two
In the final part of this article, I shall be talking about activities which you can use to help students pronounce individual sounds which are a problem for them. However, all the practice activities...
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The Teaching Knowledge Test
Want to improve your knowledge of teaching but don’t have the time or the money to take the CELTA? Consider the Teaching Knowledge Test!Introduced by Cambridge ESOL (the CELTA people) in 2005, the...
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Teaching in Bucharest, Romania
In this article from our occasional series Another Day in the Life… guest writer Michael Tate describes a day teaching in Romania, where he's been for the last three years.I’ve always been an early...
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Using YouTube for Vocabulary Development
YouTube now contains an enormous amount of material, some of which is highly exploitable in the classroom. One such category of videos are promotional videos. These have the advantage that they are...
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English Consonant Sounds
In the last article on Teaching Pronunciation, we looked at how individual sounds are made, and in particular talked about the way consonant sounds can be classified as voiced or unvoiced, by place of...
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Using the Internet in the Classroom
This is a guest post written by Lee Shutler. Lee is currently working as Academic Manager for the British Council in Incheon, South Korea. He has an MA TESOL from Canterbury Christ Church University...
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CLIL - Some Problems and Some Solutions
by Flavia ZappaAn English teacher at Italian Secondary School for over twenty years, Flavia also has experience in teaching General English and ESP to adults and in preparing students for Trinity and...
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Making Writing Bearable.
This is a guest post written by Lee Shutler. Lee is currently working as Academic Manager for the British Council in Incheon, South Korea. He has an MA TESOL from Canterbury Christ Church University...
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Another Day in the Life of .....a Teacher in Extremadura, Spain
Here's another contribution to our occasional seriesAnother day in the life of...Will Peach teaches in the town of Cáceres in western Spain. He is one of the site editors over at Gap Daemon, the gap...
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Drill Bits
Another guest post from Lee Shutler. Until recently Lee has been working as an Academic Manager for the BC in Korea. He is now teaching in East Kent in the UK and co-authoring on a Middle School...
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Early learners want to play!
by Ariel HudnallA guest post by Ariel Hudnall, an English teacher in Kyoto, Japan. Ariel graduated from UC Berkeley with a B.A. in Japanese Languages and Cultures and is currently producing a mini web...
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Doing Delta Module One? Some Exam Tips - Part One
Are you about to take the Cambridge ESOL Delta Module One exam? This is the first in a series of articles which will look in detail at all the tasks in exam, to make sure you understand the exam...
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Doing Delta Module One? Some Exam Tips - Part Two
In the last article in this series, we looked at things you need to keep in mind when answering tasks 1 and 2 on Paper =ne of the Delta Module One exam. Here, we're moving on to task 3. See the...
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