2017-08-31 The Teachers’ Room – Getting social with your students
These days social media is everywhere and, more than likely, your students already use it to communicate in their first language. However, it is a useful tool for language teaching…
2017-08-24 The Teachers’ Room – Writing a simple progress test
Progress tests are a useful way of assessing your students’ understanding of a particular language point that you have taught them, and a great way of giving them a little…
2017-08-17 The Teachers’ Room – Collaborative Writing 2: Writing
Getting students to write collaboratively is a good way of getting them used to the writing process, helping them develop their techniques and building their confidence before they try it…
2017-08-10 The Teachers’ Room – Collaborative Writing 1: Planning
Getting students to write collaboratively is a good way of getting them used to the writing process, helping them develop their techniques and building their confidence before they try it…
2017-08-03 The Teachers’ Room – Using video in the classroom
It couldn’t be easier to get video into the classroom these days, so why not take advantage of the wide variety of interesting contexts and easily-available authentic language? For more,…
2017-07-27 The Teachers’ Room – Three unusual listening sub-skills
Listening can be tricky to teach and for students to improve due to its speed, immediacy and other factors like accent, background noise etc. However, improving listening isn’t always about…
2017-07-20 The Teachers’ Room – Bad teaching habits 2
No teacher is perfect and all teachers have bad habits. Being a good teacher means reflecting on these and trying to reduce them as much as possible. Dan and Sian…
2017-07-13 The Teachers’ Room – Bad teaching habits 1
No teacher is perfect and all teachers have bad habits. Being a good teacher means reflecting on these and trying to reduce them as much as possible. So avoid… Too…
2017-07-06 The Teachers’ Room – 3 essential speaking sub-skills
Dan and Sian talk about 3 speaking sub-skills that all students should know. The skill of speaking can be broken down into sub-skills. These have a range of functions, but…
2017-06-29 The Teachers’ Room – Drilling techniques
Drilling is the repetitive oral practice of a target language structure. It focuses on accuracy and provides students with an accurate model of the target language. However, it can be…
2017-06-22 The Teachers’ Room – Teaching models 2
A teaching model is a way of structuring a lesson or introducing a language point. It is useful to have a range of these techniques since a good teacher can…
2017-06-15 The Teachers’ Room – Teaching Models 1
A teaching model is a way of structuring a lesson or introducing a language point. It is useful to have a range of these techniques since a good teacher can…
2017-06-08 The Teachers’ Room – Using real objects to teach English
Dan and Sian talk about 3 ways to use realia. Realia means real objects. There are lots of ways you can use a bunch of objects to teach English –…
2017-06-01 The Teachers’ Room – 3 activities using cameras
Lights! Camera! Action! Dan and Sian talk about activities you can do with a camera. Give your students something interesting to do with it and teach them English at the…
2017-05-25 The Teachers’ Room – Using songs
Music is a great resource to teach all kinds of language: grammar, vocabulary and pronunciation. Dan and Sian suggest a few things to do with songs. Generate interest Lyrics gap…