Category: ELTWeekly Volume 11 Issue 23

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

The English Literature Summit 2020 is going to be held online on December 12-13, 2020. In contemporary times, English as a global language has become instrumental in propagating strong intercultural relationships among individuals and society at large. The efficacy of the English language has also widened the gamut of English literature which reflects in its… Continue reading Conference: English Literature Summit 2020

This video explains how you can teach reading using OUP’s Classroom Presentation Tools. Charlotte Murphy is a Senior Consultant and Teacher Trainer at Oxford University Press.

Need to take your teaching online for the first time as a result of school closures amid the Covid-19 (Cornoavirus) outbreak? This webinar recording explores teaching live online, that is when you and your students meet online in real time for a lesson. It gives you tips on what to look for in your choice… Continue reading Synchronous Teaching: Taking your first steps into teaching live online [Video]

Here is an article from OUP ELT journal authored by Karolina Baranowska. Learning English through the media In the past few decades, foreign language films and online media have received considerable attention in the ELT literature. Previous research reveals that exposure to various media positively correlates with foreign language acquisition in the case of both… Continue reading Learning most with least effort: subtitles and cognitive load

Here is an article written by Susan Verner of BusyTeacher. Many ESL teachers find that their students are timid speakers or reluctant to participate in class discussions. It’s only natural. After all, they are trying to talk in a language they are still working on learning. Still, silence can be deadly in the ESL classroom for your… Continue reading Speak Up: 6 Fabulous Games to Get Your Students Speaking

Here is an article from Cambridge English written by Graeme Harrison. Cambridge Assessment English has long been recognised as one of the international leaders in pre-service teacher education through the CELTA (Certificate in Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages) qualification. In recent years, we have been working around the world at a national level… Continue reading Developing teachers: key principles in the Cambridge English approach to teacher education

Here is a useful article from OUP ELT blog. If we’re looking for positives from this year’s enforced move to online lessons, then surely one is that authentic material is easier to incorporate! Unlike coursebooks which, as good as they are, often employ language graded to the level of the students, authentic materials give students… Continue reading Take Online Lessons To The Next Level With Authentic Material