literature

Buy and sell

Sanji — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 07:18:56 +0000

Buy and sell - A revision activity for younger learners
Ada Antipova, Protvino, Russia

Complete poetry resuscitation

admin — Wed, 19 Oct 2005 12:00:00 +0000

A lot of teachers get the same look - the sigh, the rolling eye, the slump. "We're going to be doing poetry in the next few classes". You cringe through it, they cringe through it.

Using poems to develop receptive skills

admin — Wed, 19 Oct 2005 12:00:00 +0000

I like to bring poetry into the classroom because I believe that it is important and motivating for students to work with authentic texts.

Using poems to develop productive skills

admin — Wed, 14 Sep 2005 12:00:00 +0000

You and your students might already enjoy reading and listening to poetry in your own language and perhaps in English too. Poems are, after all, authentic texts.

Creating a class play

admin — Fri, 21 May 2004 12:00:00 +0000

In this article a teacher reflects on his experiences of creating plays and using them to help motivate students to develop their English.

Storytelling - benefits and tips

admin — Tue, 08 Jul 2003 12:00:00 +0000

We often give stories to our students to read, but how often do we tell them a story? This article looks at the benefits of storytelling and gives advice on performance skills

Motivating pupils to read 2

admin — Thu, 15 May 2003 12:00:00 +0000

This is the second of two articles that looks at ways to apply the process model of motivation as proposed by Dornyei (2001) to a number of suggestions and techniques for making the challenge of reading authentic literature accessible and motivating.

Motivating pupils to read

admin — Thu, 15 May 2003 12:00:00 +0000

This is the first of two articles that looks at ways to apply the process model of motivation as proposed by Dornyei (2001) to a number of suggestions and techniques for making the challenge of reading authentic literature accessible and motivating.

Learning English through children's literature

admin — Wed, 18 Dec 2002 12:00:00 +0000

This article is about the British Council's Young Learners Centre in Paris and how they use children's literature in their teaching of English

Using drama texts in the classroom

admin — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 12:00:00 +0000

In this article, I try to define what I mean by language learning through drama/theatre texts, outline some of the benefits it can bring to the language learning classroom and some of the differing methods and approaches
that can be utilised to fully exploit the potential of drama and theatre texts.