Every teacher has students who are easy and pleasant to work with. In most cases, they are either highly motivated and open-minded people or have an attractive personality. Moreover, there are always students who teachers are proud of. In this article, I would like to share with you a story of my students who I...
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Warm-up Activities for Advanced Level Students
What’s warm-up in general? As Wiki states it’s a gradual increase in intensity in physical activity. As a person who has been doing sport all my life, I do support the idea that a warm-up stage is crucial both in sport and a language. We always compare languages and sport, hence we shouldn’t skip this...
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Motivating your advanced students
Sometimes advanced students feel they know everything. They say with faces dying of boredom: ‘Oh, again!’. Rising up to a challenge can motivate enlightened learners to study better. Here are some ideas on how to do that. Ask your students to prepare authentic learning resources for lessons They can record videos, vox pops, audio interviews,...
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Challenges of Teaching Advanced Students
To teach students is always challenging, no matter either they’re of a beginner or an advanced level. The core thing is how to approach the students and their needs. Who’s an advanced student? CERF describes them this way: Can understand a wide range of demanding, longer texts, and recognise implicit meaning. Can express him/ herself...
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Best Online Resources for Teaching Advanced Students
Advanced learners already have robust vocabularies and are quite confident with grammar items. In the modern era of World Wide Web, teachers get access to an absolute treasure trove of fantastic resources which work for Advanced ESL learners, e.g. The New York Times for both national and international coverage, BBC with up-to-date coverage of events...
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Writing tips and ideas for Advanced students
When we teach writing for Advanced students we are often lack of ideas and tired of typical essays and letters. Below I share some tasks you can set for Advanced students to make writing more engaging. First of all consider the following things about writing tasks: Advanced students are supposed to use reference pronouns, ellipsis,...
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Tips for teaching advanced students
Teaching advanced students is a challenge for all teachers: either native or non-native speakers, fresh out of the university or experienced ones. I remember having my first advanced group of students. I was so stressed, biting my lips and saying: “What do I have to prepare? If they know more than I do? I don’t...
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Vocabulary games for upper-intermediate and advanced students
Having high-level students seems to be fun: you can talk about anything. Make sure to check out Alexander’s vocabulary games to make all that speaking a little bit more organized.
