Teacher Articles on Teaching English (Page 1)
The 'Teaching English' category offers a wealth of articles designed to support English language teachers and academics. It provides insights into effective teaching methodologies, classroom management techniques, and innovative lesson planning. The content is grounded in practical experience and academic research, making it a valuable resource for both novice and seasoned educators. Explore this category to enhance your teaching skills and enrich your students' learning experience.
How to teach consonant clusters to EFL learners
Category: Teaching English
Topic: Pronunciation
How to present and practise consonant blends, with consonant cluster games
How to teach Social English
Category: Teaching English
Topic: Social English
Teaching tips and classroom activities for the language needed to meet people, socialise, and smoothly start and finish conversations.
How to teach positive and negative connotations
Category: Teaching English
Topic: Vocabulary
Teaching tips for presenting and practicing positive and negative words and expressions
How to teach small talk
Category: Teaching English
Topic: Discourse
Teaching tips and classroom activities for the difficult skills of smoothly chatting when meeting people, starting phone calls, ending meetings, etc.
How to teach small talk questions with how
Category: Teaching English
Topic: Questions
Teaching how to ask, respond to and extend conversations with "How are you?", "How was your weekend?" etc.
The bluffer's guide to level checking
Category: Teaching English
Topic: Learning and Teaching
A quick guide to putting someone in the right level, giving a good impression, and finding out other vital information as you do so.
Fitting learner training into your syllabus
Category: Teaching English
Topic: Learning and Teaching
Making sure that students find out the best ways to improve their English outside the classroom without needing to diverge from your class's curriculum, with many ideas for interactive classroom activities on the topic of language learning.
Favourites in ESL classes
Category: Teaching English
Topic: Functional Language
Stimulating and useful practice with one of the easiest and most motivating ways of getting lower level and younger students to talk about themselves in English.
Word Impact Chart
Category: Teaching English
Topic: Vocabulary
An article about using Word Impact charts to channel vocabulary according to a person's age, gender, work, and attitude.
Teaching English to Students with Learning Difficulties (LDs)
Category: Teaching English
Topic: Learning and Teaching
How to teach ESL to to students with Learning Difficulties
Sharing personal experiences in EFL classes
Category: Teaching English
Topic: Functional Language
Going beyond students chatting about themselves.
70 easy TEFL articles that anyone could write at least one of
Category: Teaching English
Topic: Learning and Teaching
Explore a comprehensive list of 70 potential topics for articles about teaching English as a foreign language (TEFL), ranging from historical perspectives to practical classroom strategies and theoretical critiques.
Brainstorming in EFL - problems and solutions
Category: Teaching English
Topic: Learning and Teaching
Making brainstorming more useful and fun
Boosting students' confidence in the teacher
Category: Teaching English
Topic: Learning and Teaching
Ways of helping students learn by helping them learn to trust the teacher.
Olympics Ideas Two: Beyond sports
Category: Teaching English
Topic: General
Going a little and much further than talking about running, jumping and swimming.
Olympics Ideas Part One: Teaching English for and through Sport
Category: Teaching English
Topic: General
Teaching the popular topic of sport and using that topic to practise loads of other language.
Students who are reluctant to ask questions
Category: Teaching English
Topic: Questions
What do you do when you find that students are reluctant to ask questions about the class or their homework?
Different ways of doing a listening
Category: Teaching English
Topic: General
The standard way of doing a listening with many small and large variations.
A well-balanced use of warmers and fillers
Category: Teaching English
Topic: Learning and Teaching
Some tips on checking if you have got the use of warmers and fillers just right, and what you can do about it if you haven't.
Handling clashes in demands
Category: Teaching English
Topic: Learning and Teaching
What to do when the demands of the student and the person paying for the classes clash
A well-balanced use of pairwork
Category: Teaching English
Topic: Learning and Teaching
Some ways of spotting if you have been able to draw the fine line between too much pairwork and not enough, and ways of planning lessons that include whatever you decide is the perfect amount
Checklist for English Conversation Schools
Category: Teaching English
Topic: Learning and Teaching
A checklist for English conversation schools if you're teaching kids for the first time
The big list of ending the lesson language
Category: Teaching English
Topic: Learning and Teaching
Useful phrases to end ESL classes
The big list of language for talking about lessons
Category: Teaching English
Topic: Learning and Teaching
This list could be useful for talking or writing about classes that are shared (e.g. between an Assistant Language Teacher and the regular classroom teacher), for writing handover notes, and for job interviews and initiation periods.
Useful classroom language for teachers when using texts
Category: Teaching English
Topic: Functions & Text
Classroom language and tips for teaching texts