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The Best Age to Learn a Second Language
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Full StorySurvey: Using Music to Teach English To Young Learners
Investigating how teachers use music–particularly songs and chants–to teach English to children (ages 4- 6).
Full StorySurvey on the Curriculum
About a curriculum project you developed which generated high motivation and engagement among your students. How the project looked like and what resources you used to develop it.
Full StoryWorkshops On Line – Pearson Longman
Pearson Longman – Workshops On Line May 11th – 19th 2011 Motivated teenagers. Give me a break! with Ingrid Freebairn Ingrid Freebairn is a well-known and highly-respected author of best-selling ELT course books published by Pearson Longman. These courses, written with Brian Abbs, include Strategies, Discoveries, Flying Start, Blueprint, Snapshot and Sky. As well as [...]
Full StoryVoa News – Learn English On Line
ESL lesson on the wedding of Prince Will and Kate Midlenton
Full StoryInteractive Whiteboard – how tos
Now with Ipad 2, you can turn your TV or monitor into an Interactive Whiteboard. Everyone is so excited about tethering the iPad 2 to a projector, admittedly very cool, that we have missed something else at least as good if not even better! Go all the way: make the iPad 1 or 2 into [...]
Full StoryTypes of Authentic Assessments
Types of Authentic Assessments Oral Interviews Teacher asks students questions about personal background, activities and interests. Informal and relaxed context; Conducted over successive days with each students. Story or Text Retelling Students retell main ideas or selected details of text experience through listening or reading. Students produce oral report; It can be scored on content [...]
Full StoryEnglish Pronunciation- Linking Sounds
English Pronunciation- Linking Sounds At its simplest, linking is the blending of multiple words together until they sound as if they are only one word. Native speakers of English all do this naturally, to an extent which few are aware. Linking is one of the major things which make it so difficult for new English [...]
Full StoryTips for Better Listening
How to get the best of your listening A hard beginning When we are starting to learn a news language, we always come across many difficulties. Understanding people when they speak fast, link words or omit some of them stand a difficult task. However, if you work hard on building up vocabulary and keep on [...]
Full StoryUsing Songs in the ESL classroom
Here are some ideas on how to make cool song worksheets for students who are learning English.
Full StoryLove is in the air with OUP
Love is in the air… And Oxford University Press has the perfect series of Readers for this special occasion.
Full StorySurvival English: A course for Travelers
Survival English: A course for Travelers. Knowing a little bit of English can make a difference when you are traveling abroad. Language Discovery will be part of the fun of living in a new culture.
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