| | | | Teaching kids
Poetry is a great tool to use with your students as it helps practise not only listening, speaking, reading and writing skills all together, but stretches students' imaginations too. Using poetry in the classroom may seem daunting at first, but in this article you'll find steps and tips to help you get your students appreciating and writing poems.
| Teaching teens
Hamlet is one of a series of lesson plans to accompany the short animated videos of five of Shakespeare's plays on LearnEnglish Teens. In this lesson, students will discuss the idea of 'taking revenge', and watch a video about Shakespeare's play Hamlet. Students will check their understanding of the plot and characters in the play, and then work together to ask for and give advice to the main character, Hamlet.Go to the lesson plan
| Teaching adults
A persistent problem area for students is phrasal verbs. This story activity presents the verbs in a context helping the students to work out the meaning. It is also memorable so it's easier for students to remember them too. There is also a suggested speaking activity that personalises the verbs.
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| | | | Development
Learning Technologies for Business English Teachers is a 25-hour, self-access course which has been designed to give both experienced and new business English teachers an introduction to the types of tools that can enhance their teaching and help them deliver engaging lessons with sound pedagogical outcomes. The course is open for enrolment now.
| Events
Many teachers run the risk of suffering from stress and burn-out. How can they release their anxieties and frustrations and refresh themselves? Mario Rinvolucri offers one approach, 'Mutual supervision'. You can read his blog and also watch a video of the seminar.
| Magazine
The Hands Up Project, started by Nick Bilbrough, teaches English through online storytelling and other remote learning activities. The project works with children in circumstances that may be challenging because of social, political or economic reasons. Current projects include groups of children from UNRWA schools in Gaza and the West Bank, Syrian children in refugee camps in Jordan, and an NGO in Pakistan. Read more
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