In this lesson, students will find out about some ridiculous moments in history and interesting facts about The Great Emu War, one of those weird stories that is stranger than fiction. It was a nuisance wildlife military operation in which some huge brave birds beat the Australian Army. Students will enlarge their vocabulary on the...
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Online exercises on Clothes and Weather
Online exercises and quizzes are becoming more and more popular among online and offline students. They engage the participants in a unique and fun way, connecting them to the learning material. Students get an immediate feedback to their answer and they do not have to wait for a long time to find out the results....
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How to Minimize Using L1 during Group Classes
Teaching any foreign language can be both fun, motivating, and at the same time quite challenging. The challenges for the learners are to overcome the language barrier and communicate fluently, for the teachers – to make sure the learners acquire the knowledge and skill set necessary to reach a level of coherent and cohesive speech....
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Linking words (test)
Teaching English vocabulary to the learners is of crucial importance in the ESL classroom. When teaching vocabulary, one should not forget about the significant role that linking words or connectors play in the language. In fact, it is due to linking words that our speech sounds more natural, effective and native. The following test will...
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World Shopping Day. Are you a shopaholic? (test)
World Shopping Day is celebrated on November, 11. That means it’s time to look around and go shopping. This day in 2009 Chinese Company “Alibaba Group”, Aliexrpess.com particularly, decided to sell 50% of its resources with discounts. The organizers planned that it would become an annual event, when an offered sale would be so great,...
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Brain-friendly method of learning English
İ can’t tell you how many times I’ve been asked about what methods and techniques I have used to learn a language on my own. My students have also asked me this question a lot. My answer was and is: “I just did my best to immerse myself into an English language environment (artificially created...
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Events for teachers of young learners
Teaching very young learners and young learners is becoming more and more popular. The number of events, conferences, webinars, courses on this topic is growing rapidly nowadays. Let’s have a look at some of them that will take place in November and December. November IATEFL webinar “Goor language teachers”. This webinar isn’t only for teachers...
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Are self-study quizzes useful?
While teaching children every teacher has the necessity to check knowledge at the beginning or at the end of the lesson or just give a test as a hometask. It doesn’t matter how difficult or easy the test is, children try to have a sneaky peek at their neighbour’s answers or just to cheat and...
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Error Correction in Speaking Activities
Everyone makes mistakes even while using their own L1. In the second language learning making mistakes is a natural part of the learning process. The correction of the mistakes is a very important element of the teaching/learning process, therefore, teachers need to make informed decisions about what, when and how to correct their students to...
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Penny Ur: workshop summary
In October I happened to visit a workshop by Penny Ur kindly organised by Language Link Rostov. Professor Ur is a famous English teacher, ELT conferences speaker and book writer. Her books include 100 Teaching Tips, Discussions and More, Five-Minute Activities (co-authored with Andrew Wright), A Course in English Language Teaching, and more. She probably...
