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Author: Alex Warren

Alex Warren is a DELTA trained teacher trainer with over 14 years’ experience of working in ELT as a teacher, academic director and teacher trainer. Working for National Geographic Learning, Alex is driven by his passion for developing teachers on a global scale and helping them to reach their true potential. A firm believer in a communicative approach to language learning and student centred learning, Alex enjoys working with innovative, thought-provoking materials and presenting on a wide range of ELT-related topics.

Learn English with TED Talks

1 May 2019 Alex Warren Teaching Teens 2 comments

Talk to teachers about using TED Talks in the English language classroom and you generally get one of two responses – “I love using them and my students love them” or “I love using them, but my students find them too difficult”. Often, these statements are followed by something along

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Four More Ideas for Motivating Learners

17 April 2019 Alex Warren Teaching Adults, Teaching Teens Leave a comment

As a continuation from his previous blog post, teacher trainer, Alex Warren shares four more ways to ensure a positive learning experience to develop motivation for teen learners within the ELT classroom.   1. Learner-Centered Learning Take a step back from being the sage on the stage and become the guide

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Four Ideas for Motivating Learners

24 February 2019 Alex Warren Teaching Adults, Teaching Teens One comment

In his monthly blog, National Geographic Learning’s in-house teacher trainer Alex Warren explores what’s going on in the world of ELT on his travels around the region. —- It’s no coincidence that no matter where you are in the world, teachers face exactly the same problems. I’ve spoken with teachers

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8 Tactics for using Technology in the Classroom

20 December 2018 Alex Warren Teaching Adults, Teaching Teens 2 comments

A few years ago, I was doing a session on technology in the classroom with a group of teachers and I noticed there was a clear split between them. There were those embracing it and seeing it as a powerful addition to their teaching practice and then there were those

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Voices from the Field: Songs in the ELT Classroom

20 November 2018 Alex Warren Teaching Adults, Teaching Teens, Young Learners One comment

In his monthly blog, National Geographic Learning’s in-house teacher trainer Alex Warren explores what’s going on in the world of ELT on his travels around the region. October has been another busy month, of teacher training with another few thousand air miles under the belt. Malta (twice), Holland, England, and

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Flipped Learning in the ELT Classroom

6 November 2018 Alex Warren Teaching Adults, Teaching Teens, Young Learners 2 comments

In this blog, National Geographic Learning’s Alex Warren, explores what exactly the flipped classroom is and what benefits it can bring to English language classroom. Having looked at blended learning in my previous blog post, I thought that it would be worthwhile looking at a form of blended learning that

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Voices from the Field: Giving Feedback

16 October 2018 Alex Warren Teaching Adults, Teaching Teens Leave a comment

In this new monthly blog, National Geographic Learning’s in-house teacher trainer Alex Warren explores what’s going on in the world of ELT in his work around the region. With schools and universities going back to business and new adoption cycles at private language schools, it’s fair to say that September

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What is blended learning?

13 September 2018 Alex Warren Teaching Adults, Teaching Teens 2 comments

In this first post in a series of blogs on the use of technology in the ELT classroom, National Geographic Learning’s in-house teacher trainer Alex Warren, looks to demystify and clarify what exactly is meant by the term blended learning. Here’s the thing: everyone thinks they know what blended learning

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It’s Good to (TED) Talk

31 August 2017 Alex Warren Teaching Adults, Teaching Teens Leave a comment

If I told you that TED Talks started in the same year that one pound notes were taken out of circulation, Virgin Atlantic had its maiden flight, Michael Jackson released Thriller, and Ghostbusters, Gremlins and The Karate Kid were some of the year’s biggest films, what would you think? TED

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How to Maximise Audio Scripts

25 August 2017 Alex Warren Teaching Adults, Teaching Teens One comment

Here’s a question for you. How often do you use the listening scripts in the back of the book for follow-up work or additional activities? Be honest! Now, I’m going to guess most of you are thinking ‘not often’, and you wouldn’t be alone. From my experience of doing countless

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