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Here is an article on Oxford Test Of English. “When I hand my students a certificate endorsed by the University of Oxford, it really is something amazing.” Dr Ahmad Khalil Abdelqader Awad, an English Language Instructor and 2020 Headway Scholar from Saudi Arabia, has seen firsthand how taking the Oxford Test of English has impacted… Continue reading Watching Students Find Success With The Oxford Test Of English

Read Mohammad Javad Ahmadian’s article titled Task repetition in ELT in ELT journal. A ‘task’ can be defined as a meaning-focused pedagogic activity in which learners need to rely on their linguistic and non-linguistic resources in order to achieve a communicative outcome (Ellis 2009a). Since the early 1980s, the notion of task has been widely… Continue reading Task repetition in ELT

At the heart of most sentences, there is a verb (the action), and before the verb, you have the subject (who does the action?). Sentences mostly have subjects (but see below, “more complicated” stuff), and they nearly always have verbs. But then what comes after the verb is more variable, and can be many different… Continue reading What follows the verb? by Nick Shepherd

Here is an article by Michael Brand from Pearson. Teaching beginners can be a daunting prospect, especially when it’s a monolingual group and you know nothing of their language, or it’s a multilingual group and the only common language is the English you’ve been tasked with teaching them. Nevertheless, not only is it possible to… Continue reading 7 tips for teaching English to beginners

During the ELT Summit 2020, we hosted a panel discussion on ‘Blended Learning and ELT’ featuring renowned experts Dr. Atanu Bhattcharya, Dr. Jagdish Joshi, Dr. Priyanka Tripathi, and Dr. Paresh Joshi.

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