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- 20 Nov 2018, 13:36
- Forum: Games & Activities
- Topic: Fun game for teaching present perfect and pp continuous
- Replies: 4
- Views: 13097
Re: Fun game for teaching present perfect and pp continuous
Stand up if you've ever... is my favourite activity for teaching present perfect.
- 20 Nov 2018, 12:56
- Forum: General Teacher Discussion
- Topic: Teaching phonemics
- Replies: 2
- Views: 7200
Re: Teaching phonemics
I don't directly address the phonemic alphabet, but I play a minimal pairs game to help students identify and distinguish between troublesome sounds.
- 06 Jul 2017, 17:28
- Forum: Teaching Adults
- Topic: Coursebook for seniors
- Replies: 4
- Views: 18490
Re: Coursebook for seniors
I finally decided to go with Empower for my next class. I took in a selection of possible books and they thought it looked the most suitable.
- 10 May 2016, 12:01
- Forum: Teaching Adults
- Topic: Starting an EFL class - help!
- Replies: 8
- Views: 29278
Re: Starting an EFL class - help!
I think the book Learning Teaching by Jim Scrivener is a very accessible overview of current EFL thinking with lots of practical examples. I found it to be a bit more readable than Jeremy Harmer's book.
- 24 Apr 2016, 20:07
- Forum: Games & Activities
- Topic: how to create a crossword
- Replies: 6
- Views: 22421
Re: how to create a crossword
I find puzzlefast.com relatively straightforward and for creating half crosswords (for a very nice speaking activity) halfacrossword.com
- 24 Apr 2016, 20:03
- Forum: Business English
- Topic: Any coursebook you recommend for Business English?
- Replies: 9
- Views: 30403
Re: Any coursebook you recommend for Business English?
In Company starts at Elementary and is mostly pretty decent for a Business English book, I haven't used the Elementary edition but the later levels have a lexis focused approach.
- 24 Apr 2016, 19:45
- Forum: Teaching Adults
- Topic: Coursebook for seniors
- Replies: 4
- Views: 18490
Re: Coursebook for seniors
Good question, I have been teaching a group of 70+ seniors for a few years now and have cherry picked my way through several books. I found that Headway (B1 and B1+) was the most appropriate for them, I'm looking at Innovations and Global as possible next options.
- 24 Apr 2016, 19:41
- Forum: Teaching Adults
- Topic: Recommendations
- Replies: 5
- Views: 21405
Re: Recommendations
I'm not sure if we're allowed to plug our own sites here, but eslgames.com is focused on providing activites for teachers of adult learners.
- 24 Apr 2016, 19:39
- Forum: Teaching Adults
- Topic: Tips for conversational group/Icebreakers needed!
- Replies: 7
- Views: 21925
Re: Tips for conversational group/Icebreakers needed!
I would have them introduce themselves and talk about what they are hoping to get from the course, why they are there, etc. Then I would definitely give them some kind of getting to know each other activity where they get to know at least one other student and report back what they find out. Some ac...
- 24 Apr 2016, 10:08
- Forum: Business English
- Topic: Teacher Training at Berlitz and other renowned language schools
- Replies: 2
- Views: 21702
Re: Teacher Training at Berlitz and other renowned language schools
My experience at Berlitz was that most teachers had nor prior qualifications and then took part in a four or five day workshop. There was no further training.
- 22 Apr 2016, 10:49
- Forum: TEFL Help
- Topic: "UPPER-INTERMEDIATE" ADULT READING?
- Replies: 3
- Views: 25711
Re: "UPPER-INTERMEDIATE" ADULT READING?
What are they interested in? Upper Intermediate students should be able to cope with a lot of real-world texts, find something interesting and use that as a basis for your lesson.
- 22 Apr 2016, 10:46
- Forum: General Teacher Discussion
- Topic: coursebook teachers' guides
- Replies: 6
- Views: 8257
Re: coursebook teachers' guides
I almost never read them but I collect some of them because they often contain useful photocopiable activities. Headway, Cutting Edge, Speakout all have pretty good teacher's resources in the back of the book.
- 22 Apr 2016, 10:01
- Forum: General Teacher Discussion
- Topic: Book for new teachers
- Replies: 9
- Views: 17215
Re: Book for new teachers
I would second the Learning Teaching by Jim Scrivener, it's a good overview of the differing methodologies with lots of practical examples. Some of these books can be a bit dry, but this one is very accessible.
- 20 Apr 2016, 11:13
- Forum: Games & Activities
- Topic: Terrific New Vocabulary Game Site
- Replies: 7
- Views: 27106
Re: Terrific New Vocabulary Game Site
If you're looking for non web based vocabulary games, more suited to adult learners, I have put together a collection on this page: http://eslgames.com/vocabulary-games/
- 19 Feb 2013, 22:21
- Forum: Games & Activities
- Topic: Warm Up Exercises?
- Replies: 13
- Views: 141721
Re: Warm Up Exercises?
I just wrote a list of [url=http://eslgames.com/no-prep-warm-up-activities/[/url] on my blog. I hope there's something there you can use.