Secondary

How to write a good essay

This is a video which explains how to write an essay one step at a time. Very useful for our students.

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Why Can’t We All Just Interact? 4 Practical Tips for Encouraging a Quiet Class to Speak

Here is a very useful article which addresses a difficult classroom situation and gives us a series of strategies to resolve it. Sometimes it can be very hard to get students, especially adolescents, to participate in speaking activities. In this article we are given concrete approaches to motivate our students to speak. I hope you find it useful.

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http://busyteacher.org/14769-how-to-encourage-quiet-class-to-speak-tips.html

 

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Getting them speaking!

Here’s the link to the presentation which accompanied my talk at TESOL Madrid yesterday evening. Many thanks to all who attended for your interest and participation – I hope you found it useful.

https://docs.google.com/file/d/0BwvhQiYtN7sRblh4ZWoyX1d1ZTg/edit?usp=sharing

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English Language Teaching Materials | Hancock McDonald ELT

An extremely useful website for teachers, full of ready-made exercises and worksheets:

http://hancockmcdonald.com/materials

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The Importance Of Branding Your Classroom

Here is a thought-provoking article I thought I should share: http://www.teachthought.com/teaching/a-lesson-from-steve-jobs-the-importance-of-branding-your-classroom/

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Dominic Cole’s IELTS and Beyond | A blog to help self-access language learners

A very complete site, packed with information. Well worth a visit.

http://www.dcielts.com/

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Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone (EFL activities)

Here is a comprehensive set of activities set around the Harry Potter books and films. Very interesting.

Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone (EFL activities).

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A variation on the ‘Pigeon impossible’ activity I suggested last week.

Here’s a lesson plan for an activity similar to the ‘Pigeon Impossible’ activity I posted last week.

Jamie Keddie (@lessonstream) tweeted at 3:19 PM on Mon, Jan 14, 2013: Speaking activity – ‘Angry monkeys’: http://t.co/HmAA9kW0 (https://twitter.com/lessonstream/status/290825575445192704)

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This is a very interesting technique for developing stories in class.

alice ayel (@aliceayel) tweeted at 1:05 PM on Tue, Jan 29, 2013:
rt @MartinaBex very useful: How to Use Matava-Style Scripts to Create a Class Story http://t.co/wd8xeBRg
(https://twitter.com/aliceayel/status/296227643404193793)

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The Difference Between Projects And Project-Based Learning

http://www.teachthought.com/learning/project-based-learning/difference-between-projects-and-project-based-learning/