On the LearnEnglish Kids website you will find materials for practising numbers with all levels of young learners. Activities range from simple matching and spelling exercises to stories and worksheets to practise really big numbers.

An approach is a way of looking at teaching and learning. Underlying any language teaching approach is a theoretical view of what language is, and of how it can be learnt.

This is a version of the popular game Battleships. In this version, instead of blowing up battleships, teams have to find hidden 'chocolate bars'. I usually do this on the whiteboard.

What are the essential differences between the teaching of English in the classroom (in the face-to-face mode) and teaching English by distance? How can we make teaching of English through distance learning effective?

The four stage cycle
In my earlier articles Reading for information, Form focus and recycling, and Techniques for Priming and recycling, I set out a four stage cycle for teaching reading:

Level - Mixed 

This lesson is about pets and focuses on the recent British trend of having a small dog as a fashion accessory.

Download the attached quiz, print it off and use it in your class.

To revise new vocabulary I keep a vocabulary bag in the classroom for the term. When we study new vocabulary in a lesson I write the words on strips of card (one word on each) and put the cards in the vocabulary bag.

Help your students hear the sounds of English by clicking on the symbols of this updated pronunciation chart - you can now install it on your own PC or Mac computer

Teaching students to form sounds. Which sounds are difficult for your students and how can you help them improve their pronunciation?

Interactive whiteboards
This time the spotlight's on technology as we hear how interactive whiteboard can transform the ELT classroom.