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Edutainment
This week's extract from our Delta modules courses comes from Module Two and looks at "Edutainment" - the idea that our lessons must :a) promote learning : have clear learning outcomes and lead to the...
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Explaining Perfect Aspect
Are you taking the Delta Module One exam this summer? If so, and if you've been self-preparing or did a course some time ago, join us for our online Six-Week Revision and Exam Preparation Course to get...
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Teaching Mono and Multilingual Groups
Do you teach monolingual groups? Multilingual groups? Both? This week's extract from our Delta Modules courses comes from Module Three and considers the issues, advantages and disadvantages involved...
View ArticleThe ELT Glossary : Conversation Frames
A conversation frame is a type of activity particularly useful for practising specific functions/structures. it consists of a dialogue framework which gives the learners instructions about what they...
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So how much do you really know about TEFL??
This week's extract from our Delta Modules courses isn't the usual presentation, but a quiz - to help you diagnose what you do and don't know about TEFL. It's built into our Module One course, to help...
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Testing
This week's extract from our Cambridge English Delta Modules courses comes from Module One and is an introduction to the topic of testing.What types of test might we want to use in our courses and for...
View ArticleAn Introduction to Discourse analysis
This week's extract from our Delta Modules courses comes from our Module One course and is an introductory video to a unit on Discourse analysis, looking amongst other things at whether the spoken...
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Lesson Planning : Using a lesson framework
This week's extract from our courses for the Delta Modules comes from Module Two and looks at Lesson Planning. It's the second of two presentations, the first of which covered the issues discussed in...
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So you think you know about grammar?
One of the most important sections of our Delta Module One course is the Language Awareness component - one aspect of which improves your ability to understand and describe the grammar of English. How...
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Teaching Online Courses
This weekend's extract from our Delta Modules courses comes from Module Three and is an introduction to developing and teaching online courses. Click on the title to listen to the presentation.Teaching...
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Teaching Business English
Do you teach Business English? If so then you will almost inevitably need to be able to teach communication skills - Presentation skills, Negotiation Skills, Meeting Skills and so on. But how do you go...
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Want to check your knowledge of phonology? These activities from our Delta Module One course can help.Task One : Terminology TestTask Two - Place of ArticulationTask Three - Manner of Articulation
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Questions I Would Ask if I Was Choosing a Delta Module Two Centre
If you've just done the Delta Module One exam, you may now be thinking about going on to module two. Here's some guidance to help you choose the centre and the course format which is right for...
View ArticleAn ELT Glossary : Lexical Chunks
Lexical chunk is an umbrella term for "words that go together" and covers various types of lexical relationships such as:collocations (eg heavy rain, wild idea, narrow minded, depend on)idioms ( eg not...
View ArticleAn ELT Glossary : Hyperbole
Hyperbole : An exaggerated expression, which is not literally true, but is used to emphasise the degree of something. Examples: I've asked you a million times not to do that!She's got tons of money.I'm...
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My Teacher is an Old Cow - Teaching figurative language, should we or...
Looking at some old posts in the Notebook the other week, I found a collection of activities that could be used to teach figurative language, and it occurred to me that while there were a lot of posts...
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Learning Students' Names
At the beginning of the course you need to learn students’ names as soon as possible. Using names to call on students creates a more personal and involving atmosphere in the class, and also allows you...
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An ELT Glossary : On Taboo Language
Taboo language is the type of expression which is generally considered "socially unacceptable" (at least in more formal situations) and which most people use only as expletives when under stress - a...
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Possessive, compound nouns or "of" plus noun phrase?
This is an area that often confuses both learners and teachers mainly because sometimes all three options are possible (The company's policy is...; The company policy is...; The policy of then company...
View ArticleAn ELT Glossary : Transparency
Transparency is a test quality which refers to the extent to which it is clear to the learner what s/he has to do. This may be affected by factors such as :The clarity of the instructions, including...
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