Category: ELTWeekly Volume 11

How to use Classroom Presentation Tools (CPT) for online or remote lessons [Video] Time and Tense by Nick Shepherd The 10 Most Significant Education Studies of 2020 How Teachers Can Use Their Own Writing as Model Texts Cambridge launches new mobile English test for employability [News] Using songs with teenagers Teaching During The Pandemic: Postcards… Continue reading ELTWeekly Volume 11, Issue 24 | December 2020

This video explains how you can use OUP’s Classroom Presentation Tools to deliver remote / online lessons and as a great resource for synchronous learning. Charlotte Murphy is a Senior Consultant and Teacher Trainer at Oxford University Press.

This is an odd subject, because in a way you don’t want to teach most students anything about time and tense, except how to use them.  But teachers need to know what they mean and how they work. Put simply, time is what clocks and calendars are about; tense is about verb forms. The grammatical… Continue reading Time and Tense by Nick Shepherd

Edutopia’s Youki Terada and Stephen Merrill have published an article highlighting the 10 most significant education studies of 2020. Calling 2020 a turbulent year would be an understatement. As the pandemic disrupted life across the entire globe, teachers scrambled to transform their physical classrooms into virtual—or even hybrid—ones, and researchers slowly began to collect insights into… Continue reading The 10 Most Significant Education Studies of 2020

Edutopia contributor Jennifer Davis Bowman has published an article titled ‘How Teachers Can Use Their Own Writing as Model Texts’. Modeling is a popular show-and-tell teaching strategy used by teachers across subjects and grade levels. Although it’s sometimes perceived as easy, teachers must be strategic and consider student engagement, individual learning needs, and appropriate scaffolds. Recently, I’ve… Continue reading How Teachers Can Use Their Own Writing as Model Texts

A new test of English will help students and professionals at the start of their career in India to demonstrate their English language skills quickly and affordably, backed by the reputation of one of the world’s top universities. Cambridge Assessment English, a department of the University of Cambridge, has teamed up with leading English language… Continue reading Cambridge launches new mobile English test for employability [News]

Here is an article from Cambridge English blog on using songs to teach English. 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… Continue reading Using songs with teenagers

Here is an article by the OUP ELT team. This year may have been difficult for everyone across the globe, but it has been especially challenging for teachers. They have had to transform their lessons into online sessions and adapt to rules and advice to keep their students safe and make sure they can continue… Continue reading Teaching During The Pandemic: Postcards From Around The World

Past simple and present perfect by Nick Shepherd Conference: English Literature Summit 2020 Teaching Reading using Classroom Presentation Tools [Video] Learning most with least effort: subtitles and cognitive load Synchronous Teaching: Taking your first steps into teaching live online [Video] Speak Up: 6 Fabulous Games to Get Your Students Speaking Developing teachers: key principles in… Continue reading ELTWeekly Volume 11, Issue 23 | November 2020