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Author: Katherine Bilsborough

Katherine has been creating ELT materials for 30 years, for her own students and for some of the top ELT Publishers. She has written more than 30 course books and many online courses. . Katherine also writes monthly lesson plans for the British Council/BBC website teachingenglish.org.uk and blog posts for National Geographic Learning’s In Focus blog. She is the author of ‘How to write Primary materials’, a training course for ELT writers and is the Joint Events Coordinator for IATEFL’s MaWSIG (Materials Writers’ special interest group). Katherine is a co-author of Look, a seven-level primary series from National Geographic Learning.
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Teaching reading: It’s as easy as A, B, C!

30 November 2021 Katherine Bilsborough Young Learners Leave a comment

In this series of blog posts for primary teachers, Katherine Bilsborough, coauthor of Imagine, offers simple tips for easy ways to make teaching grammar, phonics, and reading as easy as A, B, C! Primary children are often developing reading skills in their first language (L1) at the same time as

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Teaching grammar: It’s as easy as A, B, C!

30 September 2021 Katherine Bilsborough Young Learners Leave a comment

In this series of blog posts for primary teachers, Katherine Bilsborough, author of Imagine level 1, offers simple tips for easy ways to teach grammar, phonics, and reading. The best way for children to learn grammar is by first seeing and hearing examples in context, then getting opportunities to practice

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Promoting Critical thinking, Questioning and Discovery in Young Learners

21 January 2021 Katherine Bilsborough Young Learners Leave a comment

The main aim of these blog posts is to promote critical thinking, questioning and discovery learning in primary learners. Each blog post starts with a question that teachers will use as a springboard with their learners. Activities will cover a range of types, interactions and outcomes. The ideas will be

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Using an Image as a Springboard for online work: Imaginary Instruments

3 August 2020 Katherine Bilsborough Young Learners One comment

As many teachers around the world have moved from face to face teaching to online teaching, we’ve decided to change the focus of these blog posts too. For the next few months Look author Katherine Bilsborough will be sharing ideas of how to use an image as a springboard for

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Using an image as a springboard for online work

19 June 2020 Katherine Bilsborough Young Learners Leave a comment

As teachers around the world have moved from face to face teaching to online teaching, we’ve decided to change the focus of this series of blog posts too. For the next few months Look author Katherine Bilsborough will be sharing ideas of how to use an image as a springboard

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We Love Our Planet: Day and Night Mini Project

13 February 2020 Katherine Bilsborough Young Learners 2 comments

In this series of blog posts for 2020, Katherine shares ideas for creative mini-project lesson plans that encourage learners to take an interest in aspects of nature. The series will motivate learners to feel wonder, respect, and love for the natural world. Learners will develop traditional skills of reading, writing,

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We love our planet: ideas for creative project lessons

23 January 2020 Katherine Bilsborough Young Learners Leave a comment

In this series of blog posts for 2020, Katherine shares ideas for creative mini-project lesson plans that encourage learners to take an interest in aspects of nature. The series will motivate learners to feel wonder, respect, and love for the natural world. Learners will develop traditional skills of reading, writing,

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Look and do! One photo, lots of classroom ideas: Toys

31 October 2019 Katherine Bilsborough Young Learners 2 comments

Each month in this blog post series, Katherine offers five practical and engaging classroom activities which all use the same photo as a starting point. The ideas can be adapted to work with all ages and levels and are designed to recycle language in an engaging way while developing a

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Look and Do: One photo, Five Classroom Activities

26 September 2019 Katherine Bilsborough Young Learners One comment

Each month in this blog post series, Katherine Bilsborough offers five practical and engaging classroom activities which all use the same photo as a starting point. The ideas can be adapted to work with all ages and levels and are designed to recycle language in an engaging way while developing

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Look and Do: Dream Homes

11 July 2019 Katherine Bilsborough Young Learners Leave a comment

Look and do! One photo, lots of classroom ideas In her blog series, Katherine offers five practical and engaging classroom activities which all use the same photo as a starting point. The ideas can be adapted to work with all ages and levels and are designed to recycle language in

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