Pronunciation: intonation

How can you help your learners to understand "intonation"? 

Pronunciation: stress

Teaching pronunciation includes teaching stress as well

Pronunciation: individual sounds

Teaching pronunciation starts with teaching individual sounds. English sounds may differ from what children have in their L1

Pronunciation: activities for teaching sounds

One of the ways to teach sounds is to use phonetic games

10 Tips for Homework

Is Homework important? Should teachers give homework after every lesson? 10 Tips

Classroom discipline

Once discipline problems have arisen, it is difficult to deal with them. So, it is important to create a classroom climate where students cooperate and behave as you would wish

Project work (primary leaners)

Projects enable to create a natural language context, encourage learner autonomy and integrate learning outcomes

Storytelling (primary learners)

Story can make our children’s learning memorable, fun and creative. How can a teach exploit stories?

Teaching reading and writing to primary leaners

How can we get our learners to read?

Reading and writing are linked together in real life that's why it is logical to teach then in pair

Teaching listening and speaking to primary learners

According to a logical development, listening and speaking are taught together as in real life we need to understand other people and to respond

To help leaners to become better communicators, we need to provide patterns of language

To help them to become more confident contributors, we also need to help them to listen for meaning

Teaching grammar to primary learners: presentation and practice

For learners to be able to express themselves and communicate, they build complete sentence from the words they already know. For this, they need an understanding of grammatical structures

Teaching vocabulary to primary learners

Vocabulary is a vital component of language learning. Creating a context is crucial as we teach and develop vocabulary. How to choose words to teach actively in a lesson?How to select, teach and recycle vocabulary?How to consolidate new words?What strategies to teach your learners? 

Planning tasks in a lesson

How to make lessons more manageable?

How to provide support throughout a lesson?

Creating a communicative context

Questioning techniques, realia and visual aids can stimulate learner contributions. It's also essential to understand your students learning styles as this can make a learning process more effective

Using Songs and Videos

Using songs and videos can be highly motivating for students. Such activities are not very challenging but at the same time can be extremely effective in learning English. However, a teacher should bear in mind that is not enough to find a song or a video. Useful exercises should be created in order to turn such a lesson into a motivating, fun and effective one

Listening problems in class

Sometimes teachers have questions about "how to do listening tasks". Here are some common questions and answers to them

How can we really motivate our students to listen?

Listening activities are quite often challenging for our students. So, we need to motivate them.    

Here you can find lesson procedure and listening techniques as well

How can we make listening in the classroom more like listening in real life?

To make listening activities successful, a teacher need to make them true to life. In this case, the effectiveness will rise, students’ motivation and their engagement in the process as well

Motivating writing (teenagers)

Some people say that today due to technologies we don't need writing at all. Computers can correct our mistakes. Is it right? Do teenagers need writing activities? If so, how can a teacher make them motivating? 

Teaching reading

The way reading is taught in many classrooms seems fairly fixed. In reality, do we actually teach reading at all or are we more focused on testing our learners?