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This site is still very much a work in progress and over the next few months we will continue to add new material and expand the functionality. We are very keen to get your feedback on any particular feature that you feel should be added or improved.
On the new Teaching English site we will have Guest Teachers as a regular feature.
Our third guest teacher is Eleanor Occeña from mexico. Eleanor will be keeping a blog, contributing to discussions and telling us about teaching in Mexico. You can read Eleanor's biography and an interview with Eleanor.
Are you interested in becoming a Guest teacher on Teaching English for a month? Find out more here.
Guest Contributor
We are very pleased to have Jane Willis as our second Guest Contributor. Jane will be providing a series of articles as well as keeping a blog and responding to comments and questions about her articles and getting involved in discussions across the site.
We also have a video interview with Jane about her teaching career and views on ELT issues.
This is a teacher-friendly alternative to YouTube. Go to the Channels tab to narrow your search. You will find videos on Reading and Writing as well as a whole host of YL material.
Teaching in the primary classroom is very different from teaching teens or adults because of the amount of energy children have! Knowing how to channel this energy, or when to ‘stir' and when to ‘settle' children will help you achieve balanced lessons without children becoming over-excited on the one hand or bored on the other.
I like to use this activity to introduce poetry into the classroom and to raise learners' awareness of the beauty and fun to be had with poetry. It can also be used to practice learners' pronunciation.
To try and make learning words a reaL "LIFE" situation, I ask pupils to
keep a list of all the words they encountered in the previouos week.
They bring them to the lessons and they ar
Multi-word verbs, or MWVs, are verbs made up of two or more words. These words are a verb plus a preposition or particle. They are often known as phrasal verbs.
The kit is based on the short story of the same name by author Andrea Levy. The story was first published in ‘The Independent on Sunday' and later in the anthology ‘Underwords - The Hidden City' published by Maia Press Limited.
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?
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
In 2006 Jane Willis and Corony Edwards won a British Council ELT Innovation award for their book Teachers Exploring Tasks in English Language Teaching and donated their award to finance a scholarship
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