| | | | Teaching kids
As the festive season approaches, why not get your younger learners to make some Christmas presents or decorations. In this lesson children practise Christmas words with flashcards and online games. They then make a Christmas craft, and enjoy a Christmas song or story.
| Teaching teens
The term feedback can apply to a number of classroom situations and procedures, but here it refers to a range of techniques employed by the teacher to facilitate responses from the students to an exercise or task. Take a look at this useful article 'Conducting Feedback on Exercises and Tasks' to discover how alternatives to traditional whole-class feedback can encourage greater student communication and involvement.
| Teaching adults
Photos such as this one - waiting for a plane - provide great opportunities for conversation with any level of English student. Most English exams touch on basic oral skills, such as description, instruction, narration, hypothesis and opinion. To help 'train' the students for this, a photograph is a great starting point.
For this activity, it is useful to have a number of different pictures all of a similar theme.
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| | | | Development
This week's featured talk from the Teaching for Success online conference is Clare Fielder's Efficient and effective strategies for written feedback. Clare discusses and demonstrates practicable strategies including ways of marking learners' errors, as well as conducting successful peer review, delivering feedback with technology, and making the student-teacher feedback dialogue more constructive and efficient.
| Events
In this free webinar 'Engaging ears, eyes, brains and minds: Authentic listening at every level' taking place on Thursday 1 December, Lewis Lansford looks at how teachers can help students at every level to engage with authentic input. Using TED Talks as examples, Lewis looks at the brain science related to listening
and offers practical tips for how to create success-oriented lessons for the classroom at any level.
| Magazine
Our featured blog of the month for October 2016 goes to ELT Connect and their post 10 activities - Using Pictures in Class. A picture speaks a thousand words! Get your students speaking just as many by using these fun, picture-based communicative activities from ELT-Connect.
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