Teaching tips
In this section you will find a selection of teaching tips sent in by contributors around the world. We are planning to add more and more teaching tips to this area of the site over the coming months, so if you have a new teaching tip or game you would like to share, please send it to us! You can use the form on the Contact us page.
Before I move my learners around and put them into new groupings, I try to ask myself if it is really necessary and will help me achieve my lesson aims better.
I always put a menu on the board before my classes. This describes the main stages of the lesson and the focus of each, and gives page numbers and details of homework.
Coursebooks and supplementary materials use a lot of grammar terminology but I try to be cautious about what I use in the class. For example, my learners get confused by the ‘present simple’ which doesn’t just refer to the present.
Sometimes my learners get really inspired by writing tasks and produce work where they really want to communicate something, so it seems natural to respect this and to give them a wider audience.
