If you have been browsing through ESL job websites looking for the perfect school I am pretty sure you have seen us! Skyeng! Do you wonder if it is possible to work for a Russian company without knowing Russian? I know the answer 🙂 Let me start with it’s a pleasure to virtually meet you!...
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TV shows for kids
There are many great coursebooks we can use to teach kids but we can also ring the changes by using some media such as cartoons, movies or TV shows. I will share the list of TV shows I like. You can use or advise your children to watch at home as self-study. You may find...
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Past Simple/Past Continuous (test)
Many students face obstacles while studying Past Simple and Past Continuous tenses since they can’t find equivalents in their mother tongue. Use this test to check your students’ knowledge on these tenses. It is suitable for pre-intermediate level. Маргарита Аветисян
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Short Films in the Lessons
A video is a tool which we have been using in our classrooms for quite a while. Short clips and stories are now integrated with almost all coursebooks. Even if not — thank goodness, we have YouTube and Vimeo. This article will tell about just one kind of films – short films or shorts. As...
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How to get out of the comfort zone?
Comfort zone is spoken and discussed so much nowadays; economists, marketing specialists, education gurus, teachers, doctors speak about this zone. Let’s see why teachers need to understand how important it is to get out of the comfort zone. What is the comfort zone? It is a state in which people and situations feel familiar, a...
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The Focal Skills Approach
The Focal Skills Approach is a special syllabus design for “communicative language teaching that is skills-focused and content-based” © Wikipedia. This program design was created in 1988 by Ashley Hastings. It’s based on the research of second language acquisition theory. The teaching methods are influenced by the work of Stephen Krashen. This approach has a...
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How should a teenagers’ teacher behave in social networks?
Nowadays, social networks are an integral part of modern society. Teachers can use their accounts in a different way: for the personal purposes (to share photos with the nearest and dearest and to get some news from them), for social ones (get to know what happens in various themed publics and society in general, or...
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The Cup Song: what is it?
A new school year is coming. It would be great to start it with something that will immediately bring your teenage students together and put everyone at their ease, wouldn’t it? A song seems a reasonable choice. But which one to choose? Have you ever heard of ‘Cups’, or ‘The Cup Song’? It is a...
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Lazy teaching – resources to save teacher’s planning time
When you are a teacher, you always have a lot of things to do and a lack of time. One of the vital routine activities is lesson planning. How to make it an easier and faster process? The internet has a lot to offer teachers: plenty of prepared lesson plans, a lot of various ideas...
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Dictogloss with kids
Have you ever thought of a teaching technique that would focus on several skills at the same time? Many teachers have been accustomed to methods that help practise each skill separately. Of course, it is much easier both for a teacher and for a learner to concentrate on doing the activity that requires one or...
