ELTWeekly Volume 12, Issue 5 | February 2021

Secrets To Effective Assessment: FREE Word Lists! Five exam preparation tips to help build student confidence Developing empathy through role reversal: a personal case study How to develop oracy skills in your secondary class [Video] Using puppets to get children talking in English [Video] How To Energize Your Bored Students With This Great Game 3… Continue reading ELTWeekly Volume 12, Issue 5 | February 2021

3 Ideas to Help Teachers Thrive This Year

Edutopia’s Thomas Arnett has published an article titled ‘3 Ideas to Help Teachers Thrive This Year’. As a former middle school math teacher and now father of three young children, I know this has probably been the most challenging school year in history. The world is still far from getting back to normal. In the… Continue reading 3 Ideas to Help Teachers Thrive This Year

How To Energize Your Bored Students With This Great Game

Busy Teacher’s Graham Dixon has published an article on involving students in your classroom activities. It’s extremely adaptable and can be used for almost limitless purposes: Review of the day’s material, or before a test Check understanding of key concepts and terms Diagnostic tests, to help draw up a syllabus or decide the students’ level Quizzing… Continue reading How To Energize Your Bored Students With This Great Game

Developing empathy through role reversal: a personal case study

After a decade of working in translator training in Israel and another of teaching English majors, two years ago I accepted a position teaching English for Academic Purposes (EAP) at a teacher-training college in Jerusalem. I walked into the EAP classroom confident that teaching EAP to future teachers would have a great deal in common… Continue reading Developing empathy through role reversal: a personal case study

Five exam preparation tips to help build student confidence

The Cambridge English team has published a useful article on helping your students to prepare for the exams. English language exams are stepping stones to bigger and better things. Exams give students something to aim for and help them develop the skills they need in their lives, education and the workplace. Teachers everywhere want to… Continue reading Five exam preparation tips to help build student confidence

Secrets To Effective Assessment: FREE Word Lists!

Here is an article from Oxford University Press ELT Blog. When we create assessments, why is it important to make sure vocabulary is at a particular level? When we create tests, we have to know that learners have sufficient vocabulary to engage with the reading and listening materials. If the level is too high, the… Continue reading Secrets To Effective Assessment: FREE Word Lists!