Teaching though Drama – Gobbledegook
Drama in the Classroom – Gobbledegook We’re all talking gobbledegook, or nonsense, at times, even though we think everyone understands us so well! When we’re trying to learn a new […]
Encouraging teenagers to use English in the Classroom
Encouraging teenagers to use English in the classroom “Can you say that in English?” “Ana and Pedro try to complete the activity in English.” “Remember to keep talking in English!” […]
How to Actively Engage Learners in Storytelling
How to actively engage learners in storytelling Storytelling is a teaching tool used with great success in any classroom, let alone the foreign language classroom. Students are fascinated and give […]
Implementing Extensive Reading in the Classroom
Implementing Extensive Reading in the Classroom South Korea has become a hub for EFL in the past 20 or so years. Despite recent indications that this pulsating industry is on […]
Online Activities for ESL Students – Wikisurfing
Online Activities for ESL Students We teach our students English. No, let me try wording that again. We do our best to help our students acquire enough language so they […]
Status – So Where Do You Stand?
Status – so where do you stan We’re all very aware of who is above us, who is below and who is more or less on the same career level […]
Choosing and Using Focus Skills in EFL Teaching
Choosing and Using Focus Skills Recently, I wrote about the importance of having a strong learning objective when you plan a lesson. The learning objective that I described was built […]
Using language notebooks with young learners
Using language notebooks with young learners As teachers, we always want our young students to be more effective at recording language. How often do we feel a sense of hopelessness, […]
Teaching English Through Drama: Breathe in – and Go for It
Teaching English through Drama: Breathe in – and go for it! In one of my previous activity sheets I took ‘breathing’ as a subject for a lesson or even […]
How To Choose an ELT Textbook
How To Choose An ELT Textbook So you need to choose a new textbook for your class? It’s no secret that the market is full of shiny, colourful, attractive-looking books; […]