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How to Teach about Culture in the Twenty-first Century

9 October 2019 Lewis Lansford Teaching Adults, Teaching Teens 6 comments

When I started teaching English in the 1980s, the “culture” in ELT tended to focus on the cultures of two specific countries: The USA and the UK. In London, you had red double-decker buses and in New York, you had the subway. British people ate fish and chips, Americans preferred

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A Teacher’s Take: Learn English with TED Talks

2 August 2019 Caroline McKinnon Teaching Adults, Teaching Teens One comment

This week on In Focus, hear from Caroline McKinnon, an ESL teacher based in New York, who is using Learn English with TED Talks with her students. Caroline shares her experience with using the supplemental resource, including her top three tips. Caroline has traveled the world teaching and teacher training.

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Giving Students A Voice: Six Critical Thinking Tips

17 May 2019 Andrew Walkley Teaching Teens One comment

Critical thinking is seen as an increasingly valued skill to teach students in the 21st Century, but the first thing we need to ask is what exactly is it? Very often critical thinking can become a complaint that people aren’t thinking like me! Some definitions have a focus on being

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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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How to Flip Your Classroom to Promote Discussions and Learner Autonomy

8 March 2019 Hsu-Ping Tuan Teaching Adults, Teaching Teens One comment

Flipped learning has not only been gaining popularity rapidly in recent years, but it has also become one of the biggest trends in classroom teaching. While having students be actively involved in their own learning, flipped learning can also lead to dramatic improvements in students’ academic performance (Talbert, 2017). Moreover,

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A TED Way to Learn English

17 July 2018 Lisa Bu Teaching Adults, Teaching Teens One comment

In May, National Geographic Learning gave me the opportunity to share via webinar my experience of learning English and becoming a TED speaker. It’s heart-warming to “see” hundreds of language educators joining from around the world, hungry to become better teachers, hungry to help their students learn English, the de

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TED Talks can make technical language accessible – try it!

14 June 2018 Lewis Lansford Teaching Adults, Teaching Teens Leave a comment

One great thing about TED Talks is that they cover a huge variety of interesting topics – big ideas that will engage both you and your learners. But sometimes, they can be fairly technical. Some teachers hesitate to bring technical material into the classroom because they feel they don’t have

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Choose the perfect TED Talk for your students’ needs-try it!

14 February 2018 Lewis Lansford Teaching Teens 2 comments

According to the internet, video is processed 60,000 faster than text – an amazing, but seemingly unfounded claim repeated over and over online. Still, the old proverb A picture’s worth a thousand words isn’t wrong, and as teachers, we understand that one of the great things about video is the

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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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Video Post: Bringing big ideas from TED Talks into the classroom

27 October 2017 National Geographic Learning Teaching Adults 2 comments

Did you miss TED Speaker Hetain Patel and ELT materials writer Lewis Lansford’s recent webinar? The good news is you can still watch it here on the In Focus blog. Read on to find out more about the talk, learn about the speakers and watch a recording of the live

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