6 Excellent Free Sites to Practise Reading Comprehension
It’s been too long since I’ve written about improving reading skills. Last time I posted about sites to help you practise reading comprehension was in May last year. Way too long. The truth is that doing reading comprehension activities in class takes time, especially if we are talking about long texts with an amount of difficulty, and very often this is one of the tasks we give students as homework.
Using Genial.ly to Create Visual Activities for the Classroom
Here I am again. Trying another tool. To be honest, the tool was suggested to me by one of the teachers (Marga Valdés) attending a talk I gave last year. It was a talk about creating activities for the classroom using free online tools, and when I finished the presentation, this teacher came up to me and said she was surprised I hadn’t mentioned Genial.ly.
Advanced TEFL Lesson Plan: Marketing - Business English - Teacher Training Blog
It’s quite difficult sometimes to find material for you top-level students, don’t you find? Well, here’s an Advanced TEFL lesson plan to try and help you in that area. The theme is marketing and therefore the target language could be considered business English, but this lesson works just as well with anyone who has ever seen an advert or bought a product! The student handout and the teacher instructions are based on THIS STUDENT BLOG HERE.
200 Free Kids Educational Resources: Lessons, Apps, Books, Websites...
Advertisement This collection provides a list of free educational resources for K-12 students (kindergarten through high school students) and their parents and teachers. It features free video lessons/tutorials; free mobile apps; free audiobooks, ebooks and textbooks; quality YouTube channels; free foreign language lessons; test prep materials; and free web resources in academic subjects like literature, history, science and computing. This newly-released list is a work in progress. Please tell us if we’re missing something good.
Love Stories for Learners in Simple English (Stories, Glossary, Exercises, Answer Key)
Here you can find beautiful stories in simple English for you to read, download and practice. Read interesting stories and improve your English at the same time. Click Here for Step-by-Step Rules, Stories and Exercises to Practice All English Tenses
High quality content and interaction in the ELT world
I don’t think I have ever taught or observed an advanced lesson that went seriously wrong. I mean cringe-worthy wrong. Which shouldn’t come as a surprise. After all, advanced students have been in the game long enough and know enough English to ensure that most of our lessons run – at worst – relatively smoothly.
Tips - Evaluating Learning
Assessing learning In a blended course, use face-to-face sessions to check how much learners have learned online, and use online sessions to assess what they've learned in class. Assess your learners’ speaking by getting them to record screencasts with Jing or Screencast-O-Matic.
Can you pass this English Sats exam for 10 and 11 year olds?
On Tuesday thousands of students in Year 6 took national Key Stage 2 (KS2) exams in English grammar, punctuation and spelling. A day before the exam, the English test papers were leaked online and the answers were published on a password-protected website for a couple of hours before being taken down afterwards. The Standard Assessment Tests, popularly known as Sats, aim to monitor a child’s progress at school. Can you pass this sample English Sats exam for 10 and 11 year olds? Take the quiz below:
Smartphones & Learning possibilities in the EFL class
Some data on mobile usage growth 21st century classroom infographic Six hours a day. That’s how much time the average teenager spends online, according to a June 2013 study by McAfee.
A Simple Notebook System for Classroom Management
Posted 03/04/2014 3:40PM | Last Commented 08/02/2017 10:23AM Image Credit: ©Shutterstock.com/Julia Tim Hi All, When I taught middle school, I tried lots of different methods for classroom management, but I found that basic notebooks were ultimately the thing that saved me, in two ways.
Tips - Instant messaging (IM) activities
Use a free, online, instant messaging app such as WeChat, WhatsApp, or a discussion thread set up in Slack to provide communication and exam practice opportunities for learners. You’ll need to set up an instant messaging group for the class or for smaller groups of learners for each of these activities. If you are working with children under the age of 18, we recommend that you check your institution's e-safety policy before using any online digital tools. We also recommend that you discuss e-safety regularly with your learners.
