Videos
Watch short videos full of practical classroom tips and strategies for English teachers. Each video resource includes reflection and comprehension questions to support your understanding and help you put these ideas into practice in your classroom.
Managing the lesson
Using inclusive practices
How to value and include learners' diverse backgrounds
Explore ideas for valuing and including learners' diverse backgrounds in multicultural settings, shared by teachers working in low resource contexts.
Managing the lesson
Using inclusive practices
Using multilingual practices
Understanding my context
How should learners' own languages be used in the classroom?
Explore ideas for balancing use of learners' own language(s) and English in low-resource contexts with low-level learners.
Managing the lesson
Understanding my context
Secondary success stories: Using rhymes to help leaners learn English
Explore ideas for using rhymes to motivate and engage learners, shared by a secondary teacher working in a low-resource school for girls in rural India.
Planning lessons and courses
Managing the lesson
Understanding my context
Secondary success stories: Helping learners to read and write about poetry
Explore ideas for getting learners to read and write about poetry, shared by a secondary school teacher working in a low resource context.
Managing the lesson
Understanding my context
Primary success stories: Getting primary learners interested in learning English
Explore ideas for generating interest in English with a large group of primary pupils, shared by a primary school teacher from India.
Managing the lesson
Managing resources
Understanding my context
Primary success stories: Creating a 'garage' school
Find out how a primary teacher in Pakistan created a school for street children in her garage, using only minimal resources.
Managing the lesson
Understanding my context
Primary success stories: Involving the whole group in the lesson
Explore ideas for encouraging the involvement of all her learners regardless of their level, shared by a primary school teacher working in a low-resource classroom in India.
Knowing the subject
Managing the lesson
Getting your learners reading and writing
Welcome to the TeachingEnglish Reading and Writing Video Training series! Here we are going to explore different ways of developing reading and writing skills.
Knowing the subject
Managing the lesson
Motivating students to read and write
Reading and writing in a second language is a challenging task for any learner.
Knowing the subject
Managing the lesson
Reading skills
The reason that we read affects how we read so for example if we are following instructions we will read differently than if we are reading to find out information.