Is Working With Computers All Bad for Language Learning?  
Ibrahim Mohamed's picture

One thing that drives me crazy in class sometimes is that some students who have high computer skills get totally distracted by what the internet has to offer.

Teaching Grammar Without the Hammer: Five Fun Activities  
Learning grammar has been compared to other fun things -- like having teeth pulled or being assigned detention. But it needn't be a painful experience with these five lessons that help teach grammar -- without the hammer!  Read more
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Partners in the Classroom  

Do your students pick their own partners? Do you assign partners? Over the years I've arranged partners a few different ways. And of course there were classroom activities that offered the opportunity to practise with many others besides one's partner. Read more

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Events that changed history  

This activity is designed to be used as a consolidation exercise for the third conditional.

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Active Pair work in class  
Ibrahim Mohamed's picture

Pair work is the way to go for a successful class. Most activities in the class aim at one thing - reduce the amount of TTT (Teacher Talking Time).

More on Autonomous Online Learning  
Nik Peachey's picture

In my last blog post here, I wrote about a new project I had started using a blog and publishing online activities that students can work on autonomously.

Autonomous Online Learning: Can it work?  
Nik Peachey's picture

I've just embarked on an experiment to find out if students are willing and able to develop their English working autonomously online.

Making time for tasks and still covering the syllabus  

This is the last in a series of four articles which will explore how to integrate a task-based approach into a typical textbook to maximise learning opportunities for your learners and to save teacher preparation time.

Jane Willis
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From priming tasks and target tasks to language focus and grammar  

This is the third in a series of four articles which will explore how to integrate a task-based approach into a typical textbook to maximise learning opportunities for your learners and to save teacher preparation time.

Jane Willis
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Six types of task for TBL  

This is the second in a series of four articles which will explore how to integrate a task-based approach into a typical textbook to maximise learning opportunities for your learners and to save teacher preparation time.

Average: 3.9 (61 votes)
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