An extremely useful website for teachers, full of ready-made exercises and worksheets:
Speaking
Watch “LEARN ENGLISH – past simple or past continuous” on YouTube
New proficiency speaking video available now
Cambridge English Language Assessment ( the new name for Cambridge ESOL) has released a video of the revised Proficiency speaking exam on You Tube. This is just one of a series of very useful and informative videos available from the Cambridge English channel on You Tube http://www.youtube.com/user/cambridgeenglishtv?feature=watch
Rome is a Place Where … – Tips for Teaching Adjective Clauses
Hearing is Believing: Teaching the Ways of Intonation and Stress
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.
Tweet from Busy Teacher (@busyteacher_org)
Busy Teacher (@busyteacher_org) tweeted at 1:53 AM on Fri, Feb 01, 2013:
Mind Your ‘P’s and ‘Q’s: Teaching Pronunciation at the Segmental Level: Any English speaker who has ever tried t… http://t.co/Fd9VJbPW
(https://twitter.com/busyteacher_org/status/297145550996918272)
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)
Speaking exams preparation
Help for preparing speaking exams:
bab.la (@babla) tweeted at 4:05 PM on Tue, Jan 29, 2013:
RT @English_Phrases Preparing for a Speaking exam?: http://t.co/9auGx0TE …
(https://twitter.com/babla/status/296272762962591744)
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