| | | | Teaching kids
In this lesson for primary learners aged 9-12, students learn about one of the most important events on our planet - the solstice, which occurs on 21 December. Teachers explain the phenomenon using a ball and light source before discussing the diagram on the worksheet with students, who complete a gapped text. Students extend and consolidate their understanding with a reading activity and further activities about the seasons.
| Teaching teens
Christmas is an excellent theme for adding games and fun to your teaching. Most students enjoy festive lessons if your activities encourage a personal contribution about the students' own families and customs. With 'Christmas tips', you can look at history, customs and traditions, food and drink, songs and carols, poems and literature, or discussion topics.
| Teaching adults
Learning a language does not just mean saying something new. It helps to also practise saying words and sounds. 'Using poems, quotations and proverbs' includes some practical activities for students to enjoy the music of English, in addition to a list of links to poems, quotations and proverbs for you to choose from.
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| | | | Development
With a focus on teacher-research to address difficult teaching situations, a TESOL Electronic Village Online (EVO) on 'Classroom-based research for professional development' will be live again in January-February 2018. This EVO provides a hands-on introduction to inquiry-based teacher development, especially (though not exclusively) for teachers working in difficult circumstances. Registration is open 1-13 January 2018 and activities run from 14 January to 17 February.
| Events
In this webinar, 'Leveraging technology to effectively teach English language in the mother tongue of the learner', on Tuesday 9 January 2018, winners of the ELTons award for Local Innovation will show how their innovative technology, Mavis Talking Books, can be used to teach the English language using the mother tongue as the language of instruction.
| Magazine
There is a great variety of pedagogical applications of mobile technology in ELT, including WhatsApp. Read Loli Iglesias's practical blog post to find out more about how to integrate WhatsApp in the classroom to foster listening and speaking. In addition to describing some of the advantages of incorporating WhatsApp, Loli also describes an example of a project and offers some useful suggestions.
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