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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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What do you prefer?

18 April 2018 Katherine Bilsborough Young Learners Leave a comment

It’s World Book Day on April 23rd. In this month’s blog post, I will share a ‘Books and Reading’ survey idea for teachers to try out with their primary students. I will also provide a simple reflection task to support Professional Development. We invite you to send us your feedback.

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Choice Boards

12 March 2018 Katherine Bilsborough Young Learners 4 comments

Decision-making is an important life skill that all children need to develop. As teachers we share the responsibility, not only of providing opportunities in the classroom for our learners to make choices, but also to help them understand that the choices they make have consequences. There are lots of ways

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Motivation in your classroom: what’s in it for me?

5 March 2018 Helen Stephenson Teaching Adults Leave a comment

Last time, we examined the psychological need to complete things and make them whole, and how that can be exploited to help students stay motivated. The word ‘need’ is a key term when we’re looking at students’ motivation, of course.  At its most fundamental level, motivation is all about wants

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Making Learning last: repetition, variation and rehearsal

19 January 2018 Paul Dummett Teaching Adults 3 comments

In the last post on memorization, I talked about the role of emotion, stories and personalization. All of these things gave language a better chance of reaching longer-term memory because of their impact on the student – the way they resonated with them on a deeper level. In this post I

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Motivation in your classroom: completion

9 January 2018 Helen Stephenson Teaching Adults One comment

In my previous post in this series on quick and simple ways to motivate our students, I looked at setting measurable targets for tasks and classroom activities, the idea being that giving students a specific outcome to aim for leads to a sense of achievement. Part of meeting a measurable

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You can use a TED Talk without looking at the picture – try it!

21 December 2017 Lewis Lansford Teaching Adults, Teaching Teens 4 comments

In my previous post, I wrote about playing TED Talks without the sound as a simple hack to control language level. But what happens if we leave the sound on and turn off the pictures? Does that have the opposite effect and raise the level of the input? Not necessarily.

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Capturing Culture in your Classroom

13 December 2017 Gabby Salazar Teaching Teens, Young Learners Leave a comment

Music, food, language, dance, stories and decorations. These are just a few of the ways that people express their cultural heritage. As a photographer, one of the most exciting parts of my work is discovering and photographing different cultural traditions around the world. When I visit a new place, I

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Personalization: From ‘I’ to ‘you’ to ‘we’

21 November 2017 John Hughes Teaching Adults 2 comments

In the two previous posts in this series looking at personalization in the classroom, I focused on the individual learner and how teachers and materials can make the language and topics of the classroom relevant to him or her. However, personalization isn’t just about making sentences using the words ‘I,

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Motivation in your classroom: a micro approach

3 November 2017 Helen Stephenson Teaching Adults 3 comments

I want a house with a swimming pool. That’s what a friend said to me during my first week at college. It was my first understanding that we are all motivated by different things. And it’s as true of language learners as it is of mountain climbers, entrepreneurs or ex-smokers.

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