ELT Planning

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• MA dissertation promo cringe

  By Pete on April 20, 2021 • ( 8 )

  

  Maria Heron from NILE asked me to record a video about my NILE dissertation. They are promoting the course and are keen to get reflections from alumni. She sent me a bunch of questions and asked for a 5 minute… Read More ›

• EAL: Choosing and using sources (History)

  By Pete on April 17, 2021 • ( 2 )

  

  My last post was a quick insight into my day-to-day planning for EAL in Primary. Here’s a day-to-day snippet from Secondary. I mainly work in Year 9 learners at my school. I provide in-class support for EAL learners in most… Read More ›

• EAL: Descriptive writing, fronted adverbials

  By Pete on April 16, 2021 • ( 4 )

  

  Here’s a very brief insight into some day-to-day EAL planning. I work with EAL learners in Year 4. Planning for my EAL lessons is informed by one of the following: National Curriculum SPaG the Unit of Inquiry for that (half)-term… Read More ›

• Using Stories Without End

  By Pete on April 15, 2021 • ( 2 )

  

  Here’s a quick follow-up to my review of Stories Without End (Taylor Sapp, Alphabet Publishing). As you may have read, I thought this was great resource which could be easily adapted to my own context. Here is an example of… Read More ›

• Why I work for free (sometimes)

  By Pete on April 11, 2021 • ( 6 )

  

  I take on materials development work for free sometimes. I appreciate that not everyone has time to do that, can afford to, or might want to. I choose to do it for different reasons. It might be for a good… Read More ›

• Seesaw for EAL and young learners

  By Pete on April 6, 2021 • ( 4 )

  

  Someone contacted me last week in a panic. ‘Aaargh, we’re going to start using Seesaw – any tips? Is it easy? Can you do a lot on it?’ etc. I find Seesaw really easy to use as a classroom learning… Read More ›

• Review: Work It Out with Business Idioms

  By Pete on March 28, 2021 • ( 1 )

  

  Scroll to *get on with it, Pete* for review. Do you remember that BBC article about how rubbish us native speakers can be at communication? I think that put me off teaching idioms for a bit. I came to think… Read More ›

• 18 more ways to introduce your lesson topic

  By Pete on March 26, 2021 • ( 15 )

  

  This term I’ve tried out a few different ways to introduce a lesson. These ones have worked well. They might be worth reading if you’ve exhausted my previous list! Song lyric gap fill Example: 3rd conditional, regrets Do a short gap… Read More ›

• Review: Eduland Writing Project

  By Pete on March 15, 2021 • ( 19 )

  

  Eduland is a short story project for the China ELT market. You write short fiction texts for young learners, add a few comprehension questions (guidance given), do one round of edits (typically), and get paid! Currently, the short stories are… Read More ›

• Materials writing news and views, March 2021

  By Pete on March 13, 2021 • ( 2 )

  

  Mostly new releases, plus references to Premier League sticker albums… New releases English Code – Mary Roulston. Dinosaur on the front cover, win. Cambridge Primary World English teacher’s guides – saw on Melissa Bryant’s Linkedin. Hodder Education. Language Fuel have… Read More ›

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