From time to time every teacher faces the situation when he/she lacks access to well-planned and sophisticated materials, aids, textbooks, etc. However, it often turns out that the most sophisticated tools ever created are our imagination and a dice! Dice are portable and suitable for any age. It’s a great source for learning activities, it...
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Why self-study?
When you take the free will out of education, it becomes academic schooling. I am sure you agree that self-study is essential in personal and professional growth; in fact, it is essential everywhere. A lot of universities, schools, educational institutions have started to motivate their students to study themselves, to find gaps in their knowledge...
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Technique “think, pair, share”
Teachers are always in search of suitable classroom techniques which will foster student cooperation and engagement. This issue is especially of great importance when we deal with teenagers or kids. A well-known technique “think, pair, share” is a valuable learning strategy where students work together to find the answer to a question or the solution...
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IATEFL – Hands tied or hands-free? Using constraints creatively in teacher development
Have you ever thought about the freedom of a teacher? Are we free enough? At the following conference held by IATEFL 2019, Rose Aylett – a teacher trainer and CELTA teacher, speaks about how teachers can benefit from the constraints and limitations of time, language and resources in teacher education. Rose defines constraint as something...
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Summer intensive course
As an academic year comes to its end, every teacher and every student begins to plan their summer time. The key to a bright summer for both can be a summer compressed-format course. Intensive courses as opposed to extensive ones, which take place regularly on a weekly basis and help to achieve long-term language acquisition,...
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CELTA First Aid Kit
Did you get frightened by the title? You should not worry about it. I took the CELTA course in Yerevan, 2013. In my case, I thought that just having the experience was enough, and I was so confident about it. However, to be able to resist the stress and high intensity of the course, you...
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Healthy lifestyle
The following worksheet is designed for pre-intermediate teenagers to enlarge their vocabulary on the topic of a healthy lifestyle and to broaden their knowledge on health problems. They will also improve their listening and speaking skills discussing the objectives of the World Health Organization. Вероника Аветисян
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Engish as a Lingua franca
English is a common lingua franca today. Almost 80% of the total number of English speakers are non-natives. It is used and understood all over the world, on all continents. What is special about it and teaching it? To start with, lingua franca is a language that people from different countries and native languages use...
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Stages of a Reading Lesson
Practicing reading skills is one of the cornerstones of language learning. They not only improve the overall language competence but also enhance the learners’ critical thinking, analytical skills and as a source of information. In order to have a productive reading session the teacher must conduct the lesson following these stages: pre-reading – to prepare...
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Online Teaching Problems & Solutions
If you have been at this whole online teaching thing a while, I am sure you have come across one or two of these challenges. If not, you are a lucky teacher! However, it is better to be prepared than underprepared. I’d like to share some of my challenges and how I have overcome them....