| | | | Teaching kids
Children are often fascinated by machines; the way they work, inventing their own. Using the topic of machines these activities provide a wide range of sub-topics that will enable the children to experiment with their imaginations. Activities include some factual input about inventions, storytelling, kinaesthetic movements, and where possible computer work.
| Teaching teens
Violence in Shakespeare's Macbeth is a B2 level lesson that encourages a personal response from students, asking them to discuss how ambitious they are personally. Based on plans to commit murder in Shakespeare's play Macbeth, students will develop their vocabulary and their ability to read Shakespeare's language.
| Teaching adults
My Wikipedia is an activity 'about' the internet, but it doesn't start online. In fact it has to start offline: the idea is that students try and predict the first paragraph of the Wikipedia entry for their town, region or country.
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| | | | Development
Communicative Assessment is a short 20-hour online self-study course for busy teachers and examiners of English who are interested in exploring new approaches to assessment and testing. It is a general course suitable for teachers and examiners working in the secondary, tertiary or the private ELT sector. Now open for enrolment.
| Events
Join Nick Robinson and eltjam for a webinar on Learner experience design from 23-25 February 2016. In this engaging talk, Nick will provide an introduction to Learner Experience design for ELT, looking at effective ways to combine content, pedagogy, user experience and human interaction to create amazing digital learner experiences.
You can read Nick's blog post on Learner Experience here
| Magazine
Our featured blog of the month award for January 2016 goes to Cristina Cabal and her post Six Amazing Websites that Make Your Writing Stronger. Cristina has some great suggestions for internet sites for students to use when they're writing and struggling to find the right words.
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