For Teachers

Hello, dear teachers of the English language!

I'm an ESL teacher and I use this blog as my journal. I put here all ideas I liked, some new information, facts about teaching process so that I could use them in class. 

To navigate this blog, use Lables (tags) that are on the left (there you can find the most frequent tags) or at the bottom (tags are in alphabetical order there). 

On this page, I will range my posts in the blog (in alphabetical order as well) according to skills and subjects.

Visual aids (working with grammar) - Your students can be visual and it means that a teacher should use visuals aids to help them to remember and understand new material. Visual aids can be applied when you teach grammar too. Read more

• How to present vocabulary - If we are to introduce new vocabulary, teachers need to bear in mind lots of factors. Read more
• How to learn new words - These are some suggestions of how a teacher can help students to learn new vocabulary. Read more

• Teaching Speaking - How can a teacher help their students to use grammar, vocabulary they know in speaking practice? Read more
• Speaking aids - Students are not always in the right mood to speak and to help them, to encourage them to speak, teachers can use little things that will help students. Read more
• Motivating speaking activities for lower level - These activities are all designed to motivate lower level learners to speak in pairs or small groups. Read more
•  How to create good speaking activities - It can be difficult to create a good speaking lesson. Here are some tips to take into consideration. Read more
• How to encourage students to speak? - Here are some suggestions how to encourage learners to speak English in class. Read more
•  Motivating speaking and problems involved - Speaking may be challenging for many learners even for those who are talkative in L1. Read more
• More than just speaking - How can we do more than just give opportunities for speaking and actively develop learners’ speaking skills? Read more

• Reading problems in class - Doing reading activities may be difficult. Students can be bored, uninterested and so on. Read more
• Motivting reading - Learners can find reading quite challenging. But appropriate texts and activities can make this process motivating. Read more
• Reading aloud - Reading aloud is quite often neglected by teachers. However, it plays an essential role in teaching English. Read more
• 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? Read more

• Morivating writing (teenagers) - Some people say that today due to technologies we don't need writing at all.  Is it right? Read more

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• 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. Read more
• How can we really motivate our students to listen? - Listening activities are quite often challenging for our students. So, we need to motivate them. Read more
• Listening problems in class - Sometimes teachers have questions about "how to do listening tasks". Read more
• Using Songs and Videos - Using songs and videos can be highly motivating for students. However, a teacher should bear in mind that is not enough to find a song or a video. Read more

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• I love literature! - Are you planning a lesson about British literature? Read more
• What is The United Kingdom? - This can help you if you are going to explain the difference between The UK, Great Britain, Britain to your studetns. Read more
•  Interesting facts about English - Do you want to make your students like English? Read more