Category: ELTWeekly Volume 11 Issue 22

Four linkers: before, after, when, while by Nick Shepherd English Literature Summit 2020 – Call for Papers Managing the Virtual and Hybrid Teaching Workload English as a lingua franca: ontology and ideology 7 Best Ways to Introduce New Vocabulary [Poster] How To Teach Directions How to teach English abroad An English Test For Schools: Introducing… Continue reading ELTWeekly Volume 11, Issue 22 | November 2020

The English Literature Summit 2020 aims at exploring teaching-learning of English Literature so as to acquire, adapt, and apply new and innovative strategies to facilitate the learners. This will be helpful in enriching and transforming the process of teaching-learning of English Language and Literature as such. Thus, bringing together leading voices as well as budding… Continue reading English Literature Summit 2020 – Call for Papers

This Edutopia article written by Beth Pandolpho offers some useful tips to manage your teaching in these difficult times. Teachers everywhere seem to be working twice as hard and feeling perpetually overwhelmed and dissatisfied. Students are also feeling stressed out and disconnected—we’re all carrying an intense emotional workload. Although there’s much about the current situation that we… Continue reading Managing the Virtual and Hybrid Teaching Workload

BusyTeacher has published a new poster titled ‘7 Best Ways to Introduce New Vocabulary’. The BusyTeacher team says, “Please welcome: ‘7 Best Ways to Introduce New Vocabulary’ – our new reference poster for busy teachers that contains 7 creative ideas to help you teach new vocab. Click on the image below to view the full-size… Continue reading 7 Best Ways to Introduce New Vocabulary [Poster]

BusyTeacher’s TARA ARNTSEN has published an article on teaching directions. Directions can be challenging to teach however its practical uses are readily understood by students and there are many fun activities you can incorporate into your lessons to make them more enjoyable. Typically the first directions lesson would follow lessons introducing vocabulary such as:https://www.facebook.com/v2.7/plugins/quote.php?app_id=144982482220091&channel=https%3A%2F%2Fstaticxx.facebook.com%2Fx%2Fconnect%2Fxd_arbiter%2F%3Fversion%3D46%23cb%3Df1898a648dd1b98%26domain%3Dbusyteacher.org%26origin%3Dhttps%253A%252F%252Fbusyteacher.org%252Ff20199f8e52a3f4%26relation%3Dparent.parent&container_width=1010&href=https%3A%2F%2Fbusyteacher.org%2F3609-how-to-teach-directions.html&locale=en_US&sdk=joey Post office Police station… Continue reading How To Teach Directions

The Cambridge English team has published this very useful article. Teaching English is a rewarding profession that can enable you to live and work in fascinating places all over the world. It will give you the opportunity to learn valuable skills, such as problem solving, communication and flexibility. As well as developing your professional skills,… Continue reading How to teach English abroad

Earlier this year, Oxford University Press launched the Oxford Test of English for Schools – an online, English proficiency test recommended for 12-16-year-olds. It’s flexible, fast and available at Approved Test Centres worldwide. Plus, it’s the only proficiency test certified by the University of Oxford. Teacher Ana Isabel Vázquez from Spain is excited for a version of… Continue reading An English Test For Schools: Introducing Ana And Her Students

In a sense, all words are linkers (see below for ‘more complicated’ stuff), but there is also a group of words whose main job is to link other words together.  Some of them link items together in Time (before, after . . .), Logic (because, although . . .) and more. We have called them… Continue reading Four linkers: before, after, when, while by Nick Shepherd