by sheila_admin | Oct 18, 2012 | How To Teach English, Teaching Young Learners
New teachers often have problems trying to decide how to speak to students so they understand them best. Should they keep their grammar really simple? Should they avoid unusual words? Should they slow down? Should they speak to students as though they were...
by sheila_admin | Jun 28, 2012 | Lesson Plans & Activities
Just a Minute is a very popular British radio quiz game which is ideal for the TEFL classroom and great for practicing speaking skills. It’s very simple to prepare and great fun to play. Best for small groups but it can be played with larger groups if you...
by sheila_admin | Jun 25, 2012 | Lesson Plans & Activities
Building Diagrams is an activity to help students with reading comprehension and speaking. It can be run in a similar way to jigsaw reading in that groups of students come together to pool their knowledge to build a diagram. Basically the students are given a...
by sheila_admin | Jun 17, 2012 | Language Skills, Lesson Plans & Activities
Non-Threatening Debates are ideal TEFL debates which can be held in class and then voted on. The idea is simple. If you get your class to debate a hot topic (e.g. anything political or religious) then students can get very emotional and carried away. Because they are...
by sheila_admin | Jun 17, 2012 | Language Skills, Linguistics
Intonation is the system of rising and falling levels, as well as variations in pitch sequences, when we speak. People don’t talk in a monotone (unless they’re very boring) but instead there is rising and falling in what they say. In other words,...