A Vocabulary lesson with Speaking and Listening for Very Young learners read more read more
When you’re planning your lessons do you ever think about the layout of the classroom? Sometimes it may be impossible and impractical to move the furniture around at all for many reasons including the fact that in some schools the tables are bolted to the floor! read more Age range: 12 - adult read more
This is the second in a two part series. Part two focuses on special days and birthdays in particular. read more As a language assistant, when you are faced with planning whole lessons on your own for the first time it can seem like a daunting task. Where do you start? How do you choose a topic? read more In this article you will find a few tips to get you started with teaching speaking and listening skills to young learners. The aims are: read more Theme: Holidays read more read more Theme: Mobile phones read more
This is the first in a two part series. Here you have a few ideas on how to review days of the week, months of the year and dates while allowing children to personalise the lesson and allowing you to give them some invaluable cultural input. The second will focus on special days and birthdays in particular. read more ‘Realia’ in EFL terms refers to any real objects we use in the classroom to bring the class to life. In this tip I’d like to offer a few suggestions for activities using realia and to consider why we may want to bring things into the class. read more read more Theme: Olympic games read more This tip is in response to postings this year and in previous years: Christmas and how to integrate it into your lessons. I have decided to write read more
This is an activity in which students try to predict the order of words in a jumbled sentence before listening for the answer. It is enjoyable because students are asked to predict the first word, in the same way people try to read more The reasons for using poetry are similar to those for using songs and many activities that you do with songs can be adapted to poetry. Any authentic material exposes students to some ‘real English’ and can be read more
Theme: Museums and their interactive features. read more St Patrick’s Day is now celebrated throughout the world, not just in Ireland, with the largest parade taking place in New York City. There are several elements of this Irish festival that children love to read more ‘The Four Seasons’ is a great topic for the beginning of the year as it marks the start of a fresh cycle. read more Children love learning about festivals and the way other people celebrate them. It’s also fascinating for them to read more
This lesson has some fun activities and language learning tasks based around the theme of Halloween. The activities include singing songs and making Halloween decorations. read more
This lesson is based around the calendar and helping students to use dates.
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This is a speaking activity for higher level students with good imaginations.
Theme: Econmic crisis
Lexical area: Money
Age range: 12 - adult
Lexical area: Holidays
This activity is a great writing task to use in the first week or so with a new group. It gives the students a chance to find about you, their new teacher, and it also gives you a valuable opportunity to assess your students' level. It can also be a useful and productive class if you ever find yourself substituting a class at short notice.
Lexical area: Phone language
This is a great activity for getting students talking.
Lexical area: Sport
Lexical area: Adjectives to describe opinions and exhibitions.
Cross curricular links: Science, History, Cultural Studies.