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Doctors and patients is a speaking activity for younger learners, where half the class are doctors and half are patients. Patients use their imaginations to come up with symptoms while doctors give advice. Learners can practise modal verbs and reported speech, but in a fun way as they use their imaginations and sense of humour.
| Teaching teens
As more students gain access to the Internet, there is growing pressure on teachers to help their students use this valuable resource as an effective study tool. Webquests are just one way in which teachers can help. Find out more about what webquests are and why they are useful. Learn how to produce your own and get some useful tips on implementing them with your teens.
| Teaching adults
This is a speaking activity for intermediate learners which provides them with an opportunity to review and practise the 'should have' structure for expressing regrets. While there is ample opportunity for personalisation, students also get general speaking practice as the exercise inevitably generates discussion. The
lesson comes with a worksheet and detailed procedure notes.
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| | | | Development
This week's featured talk from the Teaching for Success online conference is John Parnham's talk 'Conditions and tools for mentoring in schools'. Mentoring programmes can play an important, transformative role in teacher development in education systems. However, implementing a mentoring programme isn't easy. Jon refers to a mentoring programme for secondary school English teachers in Maharashtra, India, and offers practical examples of successes and lessons learnt. He also discusses how online support systems through social media groups and messaging apps such as WhatsApp can be used to strengthen local communities of practice.
| Events
Join this upcoming webinar 'Teaching English in large classes - a sociocultural approach' taking place on 19 November at 1.30 pm UK time. Jason Anderson will identify some of the challenges of teaching English in large classes and look at ways in which such teachers can develop their own solutions appropriate to the context in which they work. Jason takes a sociocultural approach, understanding the English teacher as part of a school community in a wider social environment. After introducing an action research cycle for problem-solving, he will look at examples of possible solutions drawn from the practices of primary and secondary teachers around the world.
| Magazine
Our blog topics for November and December look at different aspects of 21st century skills. And here are some of the questions we will be considering: What does the term 21st century skills mean to you? How can we focus on higher level critical thinking skills with lower level learners? What about multilingualism? Find out more You can also find our latest blog posts on the theme of assessing learning here
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