Tips

Flashcard games

admin — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 12:08:04 +0000

Flashcards are effective and easy to use, making them an ideal resource in the primary classroom. Here are ten simple ideas for using flashcards to present or revise vocabulary.

Vocabulary in everyday life

peak — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 06:38:57 +0000

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

Discover your stars for today

peak — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 01:36:46 +0000

A simple activity to try is to print out flash cards for the astrological signs. Then print out the "advice" from one of the many offered in papers or magazines.

Expanding sentences

peak — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 12:37:09 +0000

With small groups, a useful exercise is to write down a simple, basic sentence and ask the students to add as many adverbs and adjectives to make the sentence more "colourful".

Speaking strings

mel h — Thu, 15 May 2008 12:49:36 +0000

This tip is for a game which is really useful for getting shy students to speak.

Vocabulary bag

William — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 09:10:35 +0000

To revise new vocabulary I keep a vocabulary bag in the classroom for the term. When we study new vocabulary in a lesson I write the words on strips of card (one word on each) and put the cards in the vocabulary bag.

Minimal resource - Text translation

admin — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 08:56:59 +0000

Hello everybody. In Afghanistan we do not have a lot of facilities to use in order to help the students improve their English. We most often use our local newspapers which are not in English.

Celebrity interview

admin — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 08:56:11 +0000

I am an English trainer at Whitefield Academy, and I tried one activity which became an exercise for fluency. I have ten students in each class so I make students, taking it in turns,be a "Celebrity": an actor, sportsperson, a singer etc..

Guess who you are!

admin — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 08:54:22 +0000

I've read these wonderful ideas for speaking lessons, and decided to send you some I have tried with my students:

My favourite article

admin — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 08:52:55 +0000

I've been teaching for only three years and there's an exercise that makes the students read and talk: I ask them to look for an article that interests them, something related to their work field, the