Teaching tips
In this section you will find a selection of teaching tips sent in by contributors around the world. If you have a new teaching tip or game you would like to add then use the form on the Contact us page.
Vocabulary in everyday life  
teaching tips

To try and make learning words a reaL "LIFE" situation, I ask pupils to keep a list of all the words they encountered in the previouos week. They bring them to the lessons and they ar

Average: 3 (183 votes)
Discover your stars for today  

A simple activity to try is to print out flash cards for the astrological signs. Then print out the "advice" from one of the many offered in papers or magazines.

Average: 3.7 (28 votes)
Expanding sentences  
With small groups, a useful exercise is to write down a simple, basic sentence and ask the students to add as many adverbs and adjectives to make the sentence more "colourful".

 

Average: 3.4 (80 votes)
Speaking strings  

This tip is for a game which is really useful for getting shy students to speak.

Average: 3.3 (40 votes)
Vocabulary bag  

To revise new vocabulary I keep a vocabulary bag in the classroom for the term. When we study new vocabulary in a lesson I write the words on strips of card (one word on each) and put the cards in the vocabulary bag.

Average: 3.6 (149 votes)
Minimal resource - Text translation  

Hello everybody. In Afghanistan we do not have a lot of facilities to use in order to help the students improve their English. We most often use our local newspapers which are not in English.

Average: 3.4 (5 votes)
Celebrity interview  

I am an English trainer at Whitefield Academy, and I tried one activity which became an exercise for fluency. I have ten students in each class so I make students, taking it in turns,be a "Celebrity": an actor, sportsperson, a singer etc..

Average: 3.1 (12 votes)
Guess who you are!  
I've read these wonderful ideas for speaking lessons, and decided to send you some I have tried with my students:
Average: 3.1 (17 votes)
My favourite article  
I've been teaching for only three years and there's an exercise that makes the students read and talk: I ask them to look for an article that interests them, something related to their work field, the
Average: 3.3 (9 votes)
Learning phonemic symbols  

Remember that all activities for learning phonemic symbols must involve 'listen, look and say'.

Average: 3.4 (5 votes)
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