The BusyTeacher team has published an article ‘Irregular Verb Resources: 21 Fantastic Exercises’. If you have your lesson plan, but you’re struggling with the materials to bring it to life, you’re in the right place. Below we’ve hand-picked 21 of our favorite irregular verb resources that are fun and engaging for your class. Irregular Verb… Continue reading Irregular Verb Resources: 21 Fantastic Exercises

The Cambridge English team has published an article titled ‘Using songs with teenagers’. Why use songs? Songs provide good listening practice for teenage learners – but with a difference. Songs can tell stories, and convey emotions. Music can set the scene or provide a change of mood. You could use a song at the beginning… Continue reading Using songs with teenagers

The OUP English team has published an article on professional development highlighting the books you could read. Teaching during COVID-19 has challenged us to adapt quickly and learn on the go this year! But how much time have you spent on your own professional development, and how prepared do you feel for the start of… Continue reading The Complete Professional Development Guide: Books You Need To Read In 2020

Edutopia contributor Matthew Farber has published ‘A Guide to Teaching Writing With Minecraft’. In the book Lifelong Kindergarten, Mitch Resnick suggests that all of school should be like kindergarten. By this, he means that students should be invited to learn through what he calls the 4 Ps: projects, peers, passion, and play. Instead of projects that… Continue reading A Guide to Teaching Writing With Minecraft

The Basics I’ve said this before: don’t confuse verb tense names with real time. They sometimes coincide, but not always. Today I checked ten languages, more or less randomly: six of them used the same word to translate ‘time’ and ‘tense’. But they are not the same. Think about any languages you know. Do they… Continue reading Past simple and progressive by Nick Shepherd

Two more futures: plans and ‘unalterable’ plans by Nick Shepherd Spoken Grammar: why is it important? Michael McCarthy Challenges of Creating Teacher Presence in the Remote Classroom – Nik Peachey at ELT Summit 2020 Going Beyond a Diverse Classroom Library Professionalism in English Language Teaching – Silvana Richardson Teaching Capitals Fun with Phonics | Charlotte… Continue reading ELTWeekly Volume 11, Issue 18 | October 2020

In many contexts English Language Teachers have been perceived historically as the ‘Cinderella’ of the teaching profession. In some cases they have been required to ‘top up’ their qualifications, as a result of education authorities making calls to ‘professionalise the sector’. This talk will explore the causes of such perceptions, what it means to be… Continue reading Professionalism in English Language Teaching – Silvana Richardson

Edutopia’s Jaren Maynard has published an useful article titled ‘Going Beyond a Diverse Classroom Library. ou’ve diversified your classroom library—now what? We have been inundated with information telling us we need books that allow our students to see themselves in the text. We have created Amazon Wish Lists, DonorsChoose projects, and everything in between to… Continue reading Going Beyond a Diverse Classroom Library

During the ELT Summit 2020 pre-conference workshop on ‘The Challenges of Creating Teacher Presence in the Remote Classroom – What makes a good online teacher?’ renowned ELT expert Nik Peachey shared very fruitful insights on managing to teach – remotely. He shared strategies on how teachers can develop their teacher presence in the remote classroom.… Continue reading Challenges of Creating Teacher Presence in the Remote Classroom – Nik Peachey at ELT Summit 2020