Category: ELTWeekly Volume 12

Is English language teaching for you? A guide to a new career

The Cambridge English team has published a guide on English language teaching by Marie Therese Swabey, English Language Teacher, Teacher Trainer, Assessor and Joint Chief Assessor for a range of teaching qualifications from Cambridge Assessment English. Whether you’re just starting out or thinking of a career change, teaching English as a foreign language (TEFL) is… Continue reading Is English language teaching for you? A guide to a new career

Birthday Activities For English Language Learning

The OUP ELT team has published an article featuring useful birthday activities for English Language Learning. Did you know the Queen of England has two birthdays? Her actual birthday on the 21st of April, but she also has an official birthday in June. Party planners prepare! We’ve created some fun activities to mark the occasion,… Continue reading Birthday Activities For English Language Learning

ELTWeekly Volume 12, Issue 10 | May 2021

Using Hand Signals for More Equitable Discussions [Video] 10 Fresh Role play Ideas for General English Mistakes help you learn – freedom to fail in games and language learning Q: Skills For Success Question Time! Answers From ELT Teachers Summer 2021 Reads for Teachers Future directions in ELT: where are we headed [Video] Improve your… Continue reading ELTWeekly Volume 12, Issue 10 | May 2021

Summer 2021 Reads for Teachers

Edutopia contributor Marissa King has shared Summer 2021 Reads for Teachers. Each year as the weather warms and the school year ends, the stack of books on my bedside table gets taller. This year, my book list wrestles with many of the looming issues exacerbated or illuminated by Covid-19, including racial equity, the ways schools… Continue reading Summer 2021 Reads for Teachers

Improve your English through Reading

Here is a useful article published by Josef Essberger on English Club. Right now you are reading English. That means that you are using your brain in a very active way. Reading is a very active process. It is true that the writer does a lot of work, but the reader also has to work… Continue reading Improve your English through Reading

10 Fresh Roleplay Ideas for General English

BusyTeacher team has shared 10 fresh role play ideas for general English teaching. There are two ways a role play can go: scripted and non-scripted. With a scripted role play, the teacher might use an example in a text book. This is a good idea for a warm up exercise, by getting everyone to split up into pairs and allow… Continue reading 10 Fresh Roleplay Ideas for General English

Mistakes help you learn – freedom to fail in games and language learning

Maija Kozlova has published an article ‘Mistakes help you learn – freedom to fail in games and language learning’ on the Cambridge English blog. She says, “It is not uncommon for English language lessons to favour communication over accuracy: real life is nothing like a classroom! In real-life situations, when you make a mistake in… Continue reading Mistakes help you learn – freedom to fail in games and language learning

Q: Skills For Success Question Time! Answers From ELT Teachers

The Oxford University Press ELT team has shared some interesting inputs from ELT teachers on Skills For Success Question Time! Each unit in Q: Skills for Success begins with a question: What is the best kind of vacation? Does taking risks change our lives? What inspires innovation? Q: Skills for Success is renowned for helping students to achieve academic success… Continue reading Q: Skills For Success Question Time! Answers From ELT Teachers