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Lesson Planning - General

The Balanced Lesson

Setting Objectives : Part One

Setting Objectives : Part Two

Using Repetition Drills

Receptive Practice Activities

Making the Most of Your Coursebook
My Favourite EFL Classroom Warmers (by Nadia Zehni)

Teaching Mixed Ability Groups : A Solution

The Final Five Minutes (by Chris Cotter)

Understanding and Teaching Structure and Function

Practising Questions : Lateral Thinking Problems

Used to Do and Be Used to Doing

Teaching Used to to ESL Students

On Contractions : Part One
On Contractions : Part Two
They, Them, and Their : Singular or Plural
Identifying People
Teaching Subject-Object Oriented Questions

Getting to Grips with Get

Have Got : Part One
Have Got : Part Two

Even If and Even Though

Understanding Will
Will and Be Going to : What's the Difference?

Teaching Polite Requests : Part One

Teaching Polite Requests : Part Two

There is and There are

Understanding and Teaching Vocabulary

Vocabulary Cards
Labels
Teaching Numbers and the Time : A Game

Colloquial English : Body Idioms
Colloquial English : Expressing Emotion
Colloquial English : Colour Idioms
Colloquial English : Animal Idioms

Colloquial English : Fruit and Vegetable Idioms

Colloquial English : Six Weather Idioms

Colloquial English : Geographical Idioms
Fall Off or Fall Down

Teaching Pronunciation

Teaching Individual Sounds : Part One

Teaching Individual sounds : Part Two

Teaching Skills

a) Speaking

Ideas for Conversation Classes
Developing Fluency at Intermediate Level
Developing Circumlocution Strategies
Using Music and Visualisation to Promote Discussion
Five Picture Games

Teacher Talking Time : Part One

Teacher Talking Time : Part Two

Teacher Talking Time : Part Three
A Fluency Activity

Preparing for Roleplays

b) Listening

Why Don't They Understand?

Practising Listening

Teaching Listening : Top Down or Bottom Up

Planning a Listening Lesson
Developing Bottom-Up Decoding Skills for Listening

c) Reading and Writing

Inferring Unknown Words From Context : Part One
Inferring Unknown Words From Context : Part Two
Describing Famous People : A Reading and Writing Activity

Using Graded Readers (by Jeremy Taylor)

Exams and Exam Preparation

Teaching Exam-Based Writing Skills (by Jenny Bedwell)

ESL Exams : A Teacher's guide (by Keith Taylor)

Teaching Communication Skills

Cross Cultural Communication : Part One
Cross Cultural Communication : Part Two


Teaching Younger Learners

Teaching Parts of the Body

Teaching Young Learners :What makes for good practice? (by Mark)

Motivating Younger Learners to Learn English (by Shelley Vernon)

Snap! Without Tears
A Game for Younger Learners

The End of Course Show

A Christmas Activity
Recycling Vocabulary : The Handkerchief Game

Making ESL Learning Fun for Pre-School Children (by Shelley Vernon)

An Easter Game

Teaching Parts of the Body

Teaching Teenagers

Teaching British Culture

Classroom Management and Affective Variables

Learning Students' Names
First Lessons : Establishing Classroom Culture
Warm Up Your Classroom!
Using Background Music
Using NLP in ELT
Where do they Sit?

Who do they sit with?

Giving and Checking Instructions
Using the L1 in the EFL Classroom

5 Classroom Management Tips to Silence a Noisy Class (by Rob Johanson)



Error and Feedback

Understanding Learner Error (by James Trotta)
Correcting Written Work : Encouraging Noticing
Correcting Written Work : A Process-Oriented Approach
Deciding What and When to Correct

Teaching Business English

Teaching High Level Lexis to Business English learners

Teaching One-to-One

Content and Methodology

Teaching VIPs

Visual aids

Making Flashcards : A Question of Time

Using DVD and Video in Your ESL Class - Part One (by Keith Taylor)

Using DVD and Video in Your ESL Class - Part Two (by Keith Taylor)

Using Balloons in the EFL Classroom

Dealing with Difficult Situations

Dealing with Latecomers

Determining Course Content

Helping Students with Learning Disabilities : Part One

Helping Students with Learning Disabilities : Part Two

Alternative Methodologies

Community Language Learning : Part One

Community Language Learning : Part Two

On-Line Teaching

Using On-Line Courses : Part One

Using On-Line Courses : Part Two

On-line Tutoring - the Future of ESL? (by Toby Ung)

Teaching Intensive Courses : The Role of On-Line Materials

Miscellaneous

A Christmas Quiz

Career Development

Getting Started in TEFL : Choosing a TEFL Course

Getting started in TEFL : Finding Your First TEFL Job

The Teaching Knowledge Test

Another Day in the Life of ....

Teaching in Bangkok, Thailand (by Barry O'Leary)

The ELT Industry in Malaysia (by Emile Alexander Dodds)
Teaching in Osaka, Japan (by Matthew Walsh)

Teaching in Sarajevo, Bosnia (by Katie)
Teaching in South Korea (by David)

Teaching in Sardinia, Italy (by Clive Hawkins)

Teaching in France (by Michèle)