Category: ELT Videos

Carol Read on ‘Seven Ways to Promote Creativity in the Classroom’ (Video)

[ELTWeekly Volume 8, Issue 7 | March 14, 2016 | ISSN 0975-3036] Whether you teach pre-school, young learners, teens or adults, the ability to make your classroom a place where creativity thrives is a crucial factor in motivating and engaging learners. This talk explores seven ways to promote creativity and illustrates each one with a range… Continue reading Carol Read on ‘Seven Ways to Promote Creativity in the Classroom’ (Video)

ELTWeekly Volume 8, Issue 6

[ELTWeekly Volume 8, Issue 6 | February 15, 2016 | ISSN 0975-3036] Life Skills for Teachers: Getting Organised (Video) Between language and folklore: “To hang out the broom” Teaching speaking – Teaching talk as interaction Student Autonomy, Compliance, and Intrinsic Motivation How English became English – and not Latin Bottom-up decoding: listening Questioning That Deepens Comprehension… Continue reading ELTWeekly Volume 8, Issue 6

Life Skills for Teachers: Getting Organised (Video)

[ELTWeekly Volume 8, Issue 6 | February 15, 2016 | ISSN 0975-3036] In the first of a series of life skills for teachers videos, teacher training expert and author Emma-Sue Prince offers tips to help teachers organise their time, class and workload. Watch the video and download the accompanying ideas sheet for more tips to help… Continue reading Life Skills for Teachers: Getting Organised (Video)

Collaborative Activities in Advanced Adult ESL Classes (Video)

[ELTWeekly Volume 8, Issue 6 | February 15, 2016 | ISSN 0975-3036] Effective interactive activities for advanced adult ESL learners provide multiple exposures to academic vocabulary, elicit their opinions and experiences, and develop their reading, research, and note-taking skills. In this webinar recording, Ventures author Dennis Johnson shares his experience of developing such activities, and demonstrate… Continue reading Collaborative Activities in Advanced Adult ESL Classes (Video)

Craig Thaine’s ‘Maintaining Motivation: Engaging learners through the course’ Webinar Replay

[ELTWeekly Volume 8, Issue 4 | January 27, 2016 | ISSN 0975-3036]   Motivated learners are more likely to engage in the learning process both inside and outside the classroom. However, it is sometimes difficult to determine exactly what it is that motivates learners. Is it their individual desire to learn, or is it the… Continue reading Craig Thaine’s ‘Maintaining Motivation: Engaging learners through the course’ Webinar Replay

ELTWeekly Volume 8, Issue 2

[ELTWeekly Volume 8, Issue 2 | January 11, 2016 | ISSN 0975-3036] Mark Powell: Top Tips to Boost your Business English Lessons (Video) Digital Tools for Teachers (Video) Reading English: Why and How (Video) Teaching listening #2 – Bottom-up processing (Cambridge ELT Blog) Teaching listening #1 – Listening as comprehension (Cambridge ELT Blog) Cambridge English Webinar:… Continue reading ELTWeekly Volume 8, Issue 2

Mark Powell: Top Tips to Boost your Business English Lessons (Video)

[ELTWeekly Volume 8, Issue 2 | January 11, 2016 | ISSN 0975-3036] No matter how long we’ve been teaching Business English, we all need the occasional shot-in-the-arm to reinvigorate our practice – be it a refreshing new take on an old technique, a fool-proof framework lesson, or simply the discovery of a highly exploitable ‘little gem’… Continue reading Mark Powell: Top Tips to Boost your Business English Lessons (Video)

Digital Tools for Teachers (Video)

[ELTWeekly Volume 8, Issue 2 | January 11, 2016 | ISSN 0975-3036] New digital tools (mobile phones, tablets, apps and websites) and the content which you can access on them are driving many of the changes in education right now. These are not just for learners to use in the classroom – they’re for teachers too,… Continue reading Digital Tools for Teachers (Video)

Reading English: Why and How (Video)

[ELTWeekly Volume 8, Issue 2 | January 11, 2016 | ISSN 0975-3036]   Why should we study as well as read literature? What can study add to reading? What is involved in ‘Reading English’, whether for a degree, a different qualification, or pleasure? Dr Sandie Byrne is a University Lecturer in Literature & Creative Writing.