Skip to content
InFocus Logo
  • Home
  • Subscribe
  • Catalog
  • Webinars
  • About

Tag: Speaking

Five Essential Tips for Success in the TOEFL Speaking Exam

13 March 2025 Melissa Pang 21st Century Learners, Academic Skills Leave a comment

Preparing your English language learners for the TOEFL speaking exam can be challenging, especially when it comes to Questions 3 and 4. These questions require specific skills and strategies to effectively comprehend and respond to academic material. In this blog post, we will explore five essential tips to help English

Continue reading

Teaching Speaking Online

8 April 2020 Hugh Dellar Teaching Adults, Teaching Teens 6 comments

This blog post features some personal reflections on teaching English online from Outcomes author, Hugh Dellar. Like many of you out there, I’ve found myself doing a fair bit of online teaching recently and I won’t lie – I much prefer face-to-face. I miss the way I can read a room full

Continue reading
Talk

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.

Continue reading
Ted for all levels

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

Continue reading
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

Continue reading
maximising listening scripts

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

Continue reading
vocabulary games

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

Continue reading
Six Reasons TED Talks Make Great English Lessons

Six Reasons TED Talks Make Great English Lessons

24 May 2017 Daniel Barber Teaching Adults 3 comments

TED became popular around the same time as Twitter, so it may come as a surprise to the millions of enthusiastic fans to meet people who haven’t heard of it. TED Talks aren’t quite as ubiquitous as funny-cat videos but they provide an intelligent balance to that more frivolous side

Continue reading
Constellation Orion with its vast nebulosity rises in the sky.

Speaking Out for Spoken English

26 April 2017 Hugh Dellar Teaching Adults, Teaching Teens 20 comments

The earliest grammars of English were, for obvious reasons, based on written models of the language. In the absence of any way to record everyday speech, written texts provided a solid base upon which scholarly works could be built. In addition, both grammarians and lexicographers frequently had a deep mistrust

Continue reading

Segment

  • 21st Century Learners
  • Academic Skills
  • Bringing Learning to Life
  • Content-Based English
  • Teaching Adults
  • Teaching Teens
  • Very Young Learners
  • Young Learners

Follow and Share

RSS
Follow by Email
Facebook
fb-share-icon
Twitter
Post on X
LinkedIn
Share
WhatsApp

Categories

21st Century Skills (29) Academic Skills (11) Adult Education (7) assessment (3) Blended Learning (4) Bringing Learning to Life (3) College and Career Readiness (3) communication skills (7) Content Based English (4) Creativity in the Classroom (7) Critical Thinking (29) Effective English (5) EMI (1) Exam Preparation (8) Games (15) Global Citizenship (18) Grammar (5) Interview (6) Learning Moments (10) Listening Skills (2) Literacy (6) mediation (2) Motivating Learners (34) multiple literacies (3) National Geographic Explorer (14) National Geographic Explorers (1) Online Teaching (22) Personalization (8) photography (24) Projects (10) Question and Answer (1) Reading Skills (17) SDGs (8) Series (16) Songs (2) Speaking (9) sustainability (11) Teaching Lexically (3) Technology (13) TED Talks (15) trends (1) Visual Literacy (6) Vocabulary (3) Voices from the Field (2) Writing (2)
  • Home
  • Subscribe
  • Catalog
  • Webinars
  • About
Bringing the World to the Classroom and the Classroom to Life