Category: ELTWeekly Volume 13

Here is a podcast on ‘Using Visuals with ELLs’.

The ELT Summit 2022 dates will be announced soon. Keep an eye on eltsummit.com for early registration benefits.

Edutopia contributor Amie Weinberg has published an in-depth article on teaching students how to evaluate websites. Perceptive adults and savvy students know that saying something doesn’t make it a fact, and neither does publishing information on the internet. But how to know which websites are sharing accurate information? As middle and high school students conduct… Continue reading Teaching Students to Evaluate Websites

BusyTeacher has published a new PowerPoint on ‘Future In The Past: What People In The Past Thought’. This PowerPoint shows pictures made by people in the early 1950s and 1940s portraying how they thought the future might be. It’s good to practice “They thought that we would be able to fly one day.” People at… Continue reading Future In The Past: What People In The Past Thought [PPT]

David Crystal has published an article on the received pronunciation on the Cambridge ELT blog. Anyone who has heard the Queen’s speeches will recognise her distinctive British accent. This is RP – ‘Received Pronunciation’. This year, Her Majesty The Queen will become the first British Monarch to celebrate a Platinum Jubilee after 70 years of… Continue reading Received Pronunciation old and new

Read this interesting article from OUP ELT Global 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 texts… Continue reading Secrets To Effective Assessment: FREE Word Lists!