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• Book review: Loving London

  By Pete on January 30, 2019 • ( 5 )

  

  Loving London by Angela Tomkinson is an A2 level reader for teens. It provides 26 short texts on London (alphabetical), covering a whole range of topics (see image). Each text includes a short after-reading activity, and there are audio recordings… Read More ›

• Book review: ELI Vocabulary in Pictures

  By Pete on January 29, 2019 • ( 4 )

  

  This week I received a huge box of resources from ELI Publishing. The first book that caught my eye was ELI Vocabulary in Pictures, which looks like a useful and good value resource. Vocabulary in Pictures (VIP) is a picture… Read More ›

• TEFL Games: Answer Smash!

  By Pete on January 18, 2019 • ( 9 )

  

  I used this game at the end of class last week. It was just for fun, although I guess you could tweak it to cover certain vocabulary. It involves quick thinking from the students, a bit of randomness and lots… Read More ›

• DipTESOL exam: model answer

  By Pete on January 12, 2019 • ( 0 )

  

  Someone asked on the ELT Planning Facebook page about model answers for Section 1 of the DipTESOL exam. I found one model answer here on this informative tesoldip blog. It doesn’t state the exact question asked, but you can infer… Read More ›

• 10 pronunciation books for DipTESOL trainees

  By Pete on January 5, 2019 • ( 5 )

  

  Here’s my suggested reading list for the phonology component of the DipTESOL. I don’t want to mislead you – the course is 9 months long (depending) and you’ve a lot to do during that time. I’m not saying you should… Read More ›

• Webinar: Teaching English pronunciation for the real world (Laura Patsko)

  By Pete on January 3, 2019 • ( 6 )

  

  This webinar from November 2018 is a good introduction to the concept of English as a Lingua Franca. The hour-long session gives an overview the following:

• 30 Role-plays for TEFL

  By Pete on December 5, 2018 • ( 7 )

  

  Do you want to bring some drama and creativity into class? Are you looking for new ways to motivate and engage your teen/adult learners? Are you on the lookout for a good value TEFL resource written by real teachers, for real teachers?… Read More ›

• How to get a CELTA Pass A

  By Pete on December 3, 2018 • ( 23 )

  

  I passed the CELTA with a grade A. There’s my certificate… There are already some good posts around on how to get a Pass A – see CELTA Helper for an example. However, I’ve been contacted a lot since I… Read More ›

• Lesson idea: Kahoot! for capitalisation and punctuation

  By Pete on December 2, 2018 • ( 0 )

  

  A few months ago I mentioned word stress games using Kahoot! This app has also come in handy recently for practising punctuation/capitalisation. I just display a sentence with various errors in it– learners judge how many mistakes there are in… Read More ›

• Review: ELT Training Library (Language Fuel)

  By Pete on November 30, 2018 • ( 6 )

  

  I love a freebie! I‘ve just completed a two-week free trial of Language Fuel. Overall, I give it an ELTplanning thumbs up. Skip to the end for my overall thoughts…

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