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Children love learning about festivals and the way other people celebrate them. It's also fascinating for them to compare how they celebrate the same festival in their own country. Easter is widely celebrated by children across the world and it is interesting from a cross-cultural point of view to develop at least a few activities related to eggs, bunnies and hot cross buns!
| Teaching teens
This is an Easter lesson for teens which focuses on a range of language skills. It is aimed at lower levels but the activities could be easily adapted to suit higher levels. Students will review vocabulary related to Easter, practise using prepositions of place in a classroom Easter egg hunt, read a text about Easter traditions in the UK and look at a typical British Easter menu.
| Teaching adults
Visual representations of information are by no means an innovation in education. The use of graphs and charts to represent statistical information and time-lines showing the sequence of historical events have long been accepted tools, while in language teaching, the mind map is already a common aid to brainstorming a topic. Read this article to find out more about the advantages of graphic organisers in language learning, the different types and functions,
and a list of websites which offer a range of organiser templates that you can download for free.
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| | | | Development
Teacher talk has had a lot of bad press over the past few years, but some would argue that 'good' teacher talk is a valuable classroom resource. Watch a recording of an interview with Jamie Keddie from the IATEFL 2017 conference about teacher talk and how it can become a positive part of the language
learning experience.
| Events
Watch a recording of Tuesday's plenary session at the IATEFL 2017 conference by Gabriel Diaz Maggioli - 'Empowering teachers through continued professional development: frameworks, practices and promises'. Gabriel tells us how even though most of our colleagues are not provided with development opportunities as part of their jobs, teachers have taken upon themselves to build these growth opportunities. In this plenary he shares some stories, and recommends potential ways in which colleagues can help colleagues learn and develop.
| Magazine
Neil T Millington has been experimenting with using mobile devices in his university communication classes over the last couple of years. He has had some success and in other cases it hasn't worked as well. Read Neil's latest blog post to find out more about how he has been experimenting with mobile devices to get his learners talking - 'Three enjoyable smartphone activities to get learners talking'.
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