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Get ‘em Moving!

13 November 2017 Katherine Stannett Teaching Teens, Young Learners 2 comments

Sometimes you can tell that your students are going to doze off as soon as the lesson starts. Sometimes, despite your best efforts, despite making a ‘brilliant beginning,’ you can sense the energy levels start to flag as your lesson progresses. A quick switch, getting your students up and out of

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You can use a TED talk without the sound – try it!

23 October 2017 Lewis Lansford Teaching Adults, Teaching Teens One comment

A simple hack to control language level In the first post of this blog series TED Talks work for all levels: Try it!, I talked about how TED Talks can be used in the classroom for students at any level, as long as the activities that support them are level-appropriate.

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Become a Citizen Scientist

10 October 2017 Gabby Salazar Teaching Teens One comment

Become a Citizen Scientist (Using Your Phone!) Did you know that you can contribute to scientific research using only your phone? Scientists around the globe are calling on anyone with a camera or a computer to help contribute to our knowledge of the world. This movement is called Citizen Science

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Brilliant Beginnings

4 October 2017 Katherine Stannett Teaching Teens 3 comments

Teenage students have a famously short attention span, and with plenty of other distractions around them, you need to get them hooked as soon as they walk into the classroom. That’s why I often say that a lesson can be ‘won or lost’ in the first five minutes. In this

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Making Learning Last: Stories and imagery

21 September 2017 Paul Dummett Teaching Teens 3 comments

Do you ever feel frustrated that your students can’t hang on to what you’ve taught them? Actually, about 70% of what we forget is forgotten in the first 24 hours after learning. That may help to explain why our students, who seem so good at using a particular grammatical structure

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TED Talks work for all levels – try it!

13 September 2017 Lewis Lansford Teaching Teens 5 comments

What’s the best level for introducing TED Talks? All levels, including beginners. Teachers and learners love TED Talks because they feature big, fascinating ideas that learners want to talk about.  And with the right TED Talk, one that offers a big idea and the opportunity for students to learn and

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TED Talks

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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Recycled Readings

15 August 2017 Alex Warren Teaching Teens, Young Learners Leave a comment

Nowadays most course books come with the reading texts available in Word format either online or on the teacher’s resource CD-ROM. These are a great resource, but from my experience teachers rarely take advantage of these, which is a shame as there’s so much you can do with them and,

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4 Vocabulary Games for your Classroom

8 August 2017 Alex Warren Teaching Teens, Young Learners 4 comments

Last week we looked at different easy to prepare grammar games, but when it comes to games vocabulary comes out king – there are literally hundreds of different vocabulary games out there. In this blog we’ll look at some of my favourites, but before we do that I want to

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