Language development
Building dialogues in the reading class
Dialogue and learning
What are your most memorable experiences of learning something new?
Thinking back, you may recall a given context (who was present or what the light was like, for exa
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Write your own graded reader: Getting started
Do you feel like sharing your own stories with your students? Would you like to just get creative and write in English?
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Create a mysterious setting in 8 easy steps
What makes Halloween stories so scary and exciting? It must be a combination of a spine-chilling plot and a powerful build-up to and description of each scene.
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Listening practice in the language class
How can the combination of two receptive skills have a productive outcome? What are the benefits of focussing on improving our students' listening fluency?
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Language and CLIL Projects for World Food Day
'Climate is changing. Food and agriculture must too.'
World Food Day, an event promoted by the United Nations' World Agricultural Organisation is held on October 16th.
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Hooked on Books: Drama in the ELT classroom with Susan Hillyard
In this series of interviews we talk to teachers, ELT writers, visual artists and researchers about the importance of using literature in the language classroom.
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Dealing with Dyslexia in the English Classroom
We could say that dyslexia is as much of a learning difficulty as a teaching difficulty, and not only in the English classroom.
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Back to school: 10 ideas to promote reading
If you write a list of objectives for this school term, I'm sure 'reading' is on your list. Getting your students to read more in English is one of the greatest successes you can achieve.
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Write your own story: 7 ideas to boost your writing process
If you've been thinking of writing your own story or graded reader, you will need to develop other skills too, to boost your writing process, improve your writing style and edit your text.
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