In this section, you will find a number of articles, which have been written to help you develop your skills and knowledge as a teacher in the professional practice 'Managing the lesson'. From primary-aged students to adult learners of English, the articles you will find here are practical, insightful and full of ideas to support your teaching and planning for all kinds of classrooms.

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Maintaining concentration with young learners

This article is designed to help you with keeping children interested in your class. There are so many reasons why their minds could wander and you find that you are talking to yourself!

Conducting Feedback on Exercises and Tasks - methodology article

Conducting Feedback on Exercises and Tasks

The term feedback can apply to a number of classroom situations and procedures, but here it refers to a range of techniques employed by the teacher to facilitate responses from the students to an exercise or task.

Dealing with discipline

No matter how interesting and well prepared our lesson may be, it can be ruined by a confrontation with students.

Question techniques and strategies

The way you use questions to engage with your students can have a big effect on your lesson. Here are some tips to help you get the most out of your questions.

Checking comprehension

Making sure that students understand what is happening in the lesson and that they have understood the language you have taught them can at times be very difficult.

Eliciting - methodology article

Eliciting

Eliciting (elicitation) is term which describes a range of techniques which enable the teacher to get learners to provide information rather than giving it to them.

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