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An ELT Notebook : Personalisation Activities
Personalisation activities are activities which focus on the learners themselves, their own experiences and opinions rather than topics in the abstract. They became popular, and started to be built...
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An ELT Glossary : On Autonomy
An autonomous learner is one who can take complete control of their own learning, without needing to depend on a teacher, course designer or organisation to make decisions for them about what, when how...
View ArticleAn ELT Glossary : Echo Utterances
Quirk et al (1972) define echo utterances as : "... utterances which repeat as a whole or in part what has been said by another speaker..... all echo utterances are either interrogative or exclamatory...
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Getting to Grips with Get
How many times have students said to you “I’ll never understand the word get. It has so many meanings!” Just before I wrote this I looked up get in a concordancer (1), and these are a few examples of...
View ArticleAn ELT Glossary : Definite, Indefinite and Zero Articles
a) Use of the articlesThe definite article"the" introduces information which is shared between the writer/reader or speaker/listener. The indefinite article "a/an" or the “zero” article, on the other...
View ArticleAn ELT Glossary : Countable and Uncountable Nouns
If a noun is used countably, it is seen as an individual item of which there may be more than one example. It can therefore be either singular - Look at that dog! - or plural - Look at those dogs.When...
View ArticleAn ELT Glossary : Syllable
A word will consist of one or more syllables. Each syllable will be made up of a vowel sound which may or may not have surrounding consonants. For example :Oh! /əʊ/, or /ɔː/, andI /aɪ/ are all...
View ArticleListening Subskills - the answers
The subskills that the listener needed to use to understand the meaning of each extract were : 1 and 2. Interpreting non-explicitly stated meaning from general knowledge of the world: that "my friend"...
View ArticleA Subskills Approach to Teaching Skills
Every Saturday in 2018, we will be featuring a short presentation from a unit included in one of our courses for the Cambridge English Delta Modules scheme. They will obviously be of interest to anyone...
View ArticleAn ELT Glossary : Blended learning
A blended course is a course which uses different forms of learning - which these days is very often a mix of on-line and face to face study. So, for example, if you were following one of our blended...
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Some Ideas on Differentiation
Do you teach mixed ability or mixed level classes? If you teach in a situation where classes are very large, or where there is "rolling enrolment" with some learners coming into the class mid way...
View ArticleAn Introduction to Phonology
This week's extract from our Delta Modules courses comes from Module One and talks about the different aspects of phonology and why they may be important in the classroom. (Approx 10 mins)...
View ArticleTeaching Reading
This week's extract from our Delta Modules course comes from Module One and is the first part of a video (approx 9 mins) looking at teaching reading and the advantages/disadvantages of using authentic...
View ArticleTeaching Reading - Part Two
This week's extract from our Delta Modules courses follows on from last week's post. It's the second part of a unit dealing with teaching reading. The video (approx 10 mins) continues looking at the...
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Teaching Receptive Skills
Want a sneak peek at a Delta Module Two seminar? We film nearly all ours so that participants can review them afterwards or catch up if they've missed a session. Here's the first part of one on...
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A Subskills Approach to Teaching Listening and Reading
Did you watch the first part of the Delta Module Two seminar that we posted last week? In it I argued that the common pre- while and post- approach to listening and reading was a useful, but not...
View ArticleAn ELT Glossary : Blended learning
A blended course is a course which uses different forms of learning - which these days is very often a mix of on-line and face to face study. So, for example, if you were following one of our blended...
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Teaching Young Learners : the pre-school and primary years
Do you teach very young learners? This week's extract from our Delta modules courses comes from Module Three, and looks at some of the issues involved in teaching this age group - including dealing...
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Teaching Teenagers
Do you teach teenagers? This week's extract from our Cambridge English Delta Modules courses again comes from our Module Three course and looks at some of the issues involved in teaching the 12-17 age...
View ArticleThe Best Reason - Lesson Outline
THE LESSON The overall purpose of the lesson is :· To teach in order to and so that to introduce clauses of reason/purposeClass : The class consists of 12 adult learners, all Italian L1, at a...
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