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TEFL tips, ideas and thoughts from a developing teacher. 18 more ways to introduce your lesson topic. This term I’ve tried out a few different ways to introduce a lesson. These ones have worked well. They might be worth reading if you’ve exhausted my previous list. Song lyric gap fill. Do a short gap fill on part of a song related to your topic. Mine was on some lines from Frank Sinatra’s My Way:. I’ve had a few (1.19 1.30). How to introduce a lesson. March 9, 2016. Lesson idea: Star Wars crawl creator.

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TEFL tips, ideas and thoughts from a developing teacher. Does anyone have any good suggestions for break time games? I have an interactive whiteboard and I’ve started to leave a game on the board (if I can trust the class with the equipment! I prefer using things like Quizlet. As I can make vocabulary review games like the Scattergram one I’ve posted this example before. Sporcle. S alright but you often need a designated typer so it’s a bit limited. So, any ideas? Posted in Lesson Ideas. October 17, 2016.

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TEFL tips, ideas and thoughts from a developing teacher. A rant about comprehension questions. On my module in materials development we’ve just looked at reading and listening tasks. We spoke about what makes good/bad comprehension questions. ‘Plain sense’ questions are seen as pretty ineffective, as they just test familiarity with sentence structure rather than actual understanding. Here’s an example of a plain sense question that I came across on my Dip (at TLI). Q1 What are most zins? A: (To have a he...

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12 ideas for reviewing vocabulary | elt planning

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TEFL tips, ideas and thoughts from a developing teacher. 12 ideas for reviewing vocabulary. I’ve kept a list of all the vocabulary that has come up in class during the last few weeks of summer school. It’s a fair bit about 200 words. 1) Do you remember? Next, ask students to organise the words by topic. Don’t restrict them by giving particular topics, let them decide how they want to categorise the words. Afterwards, get students to rotate to another table, have a look at another teams words and ...When ...

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TEFL tips, ideas and thoughts from a developing teacher. Fluency practice: What do you know about Britain? Here’s a fun way to get students sharing information, in the context of history and culture. I originally got this idea from waygook.org. Which is a good source of lesson inspiration if you’re a teacher based in South Korea. And tagged British history. May 31, 2015. Lesson idea: UK politics and the election. And tagged British culture. May 7, 2015. Lesson idea: quick conditionals review. I think thi...

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TEFL tips, ideas and thoughts from a developing teacher. I mentioned a few whiteboard tips this time last year. I should probably follow my own advice, because my recent whiteboard work has been a bit shoddy. I’ve been taking some pictures of my recent boards. I won’t post them up in full I’m embarrassed that I actually make quite a few spelling mistakes. I’m working on that. Here’s a snippet of one though this made me chuckle. It must have been an interesting gap year this student was having. Interactiv...

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TEFL tips, ideas and thoughts from a developing teacher. Teacher at British Council Bangkok. Personalising learning – self-portraits. I love the book Being Creative by Chaz Pugliese. It’s full of great activities and ideas for personalising learning. It’s also a great book for new teachers to have around as it will encourage you to experiment. Being Creative, page 62. Here’s an outline of the activity. I mainly use it with teen classes:. Actually I make this 4 columns, including ‘two fun facts about me’).

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TEFL tips, ideas and thoughts from a developing teacher. Help please: Frayer models. What better place to think through a lesson idea than on my blog? Hopefully all you great teachers can offer a few ideas…. I recently came across the idea of Frayer models while browsing Teacher’s Toolkit. I found other explanations and examples of their use on this blog. And concise definition here. Taken from http:/ www.readingeducator.com. December 16, 2015. 12 ideas for reviewing vocabulary. Here are some ideas for r...

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TEFL tips, ideas and thoughts from a developing teacher. Thoughts on teaching Vietnamese learners. And tagged elt games. July 17, 2015. Personalising learning – self-portraits. A rant about comprehension questions. Experimenting with ‘the Inner Workbench’. The role of research in TEFL. Like ELT Planning on Facebook. Like ELT Planning on Facebook. Follow Blog via Email. Enter your email address to follow this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email. Join 3,410 other followers. Spain through t...

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DipTESOL tips | elt planning

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TEFL tips, ideas and thoughts from a developing teacher. I don’t have much to add when it comes to the DipTESOL phonology interview. You can find two great overviews about it from Gemma Lunn. Both mention the example videos by Oxford TEFL. Which I think are done by the tutors there. All I can really add are some concrete examples, and a bit about my experience of doing the interview itself. And find the others in English Teaching Professional. See ‘ About me. A specific group of learners. October 14, 2016.