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• Teaching functional language

  By Pete on June 25, 2018 • ( 3 )

  

  A newly-qualified CELTA teacher has asked me for advice about how to deal with functional language. So… this is one of my approaches to teaching functional language! The example is from a lesson I did last weekend about the World… Read More ›

• Training: Improve your whiteboard work

  By Pete on June 11, 2018 • ( 5 )

  

  I’ve written a training session about whiteboard work designed for our CELTA level teachers. After the last round of teacher observations we established that boarding new/emergent vocabulary was an area for development. This session includes some tips to help teachers… Read More ›

• Review: Fluentize video lessons

  By Pete on June 4, 2018 • ( 3 )

  

  I do love a good video-based lesson. Jamie Keddie at lessonstream does them really well. Kieran Donaghy’s lessons on Film English are good for focusing on certain themes. Vocabulary in Chunks and AllatC are two great blogs sharing video lesson… Read More ›

• Evidence and (my lack of) accountability

  By Pete on May 28, 2018 • ( 1 )

  

  Last ramble before I’m back to sharing lesson ideas. I’ve been re-reading Russ Mayne’s blog on evidence based ELT. I remember being quite into it in the lead up to my diploma and agreed with (what I saw as) his… Read More ›

• Acoustic blur, soundshapes, speech streams

  By Pete on May 22, 2018 • ( 8 )

  

  I’ve been thinking about an interaction I had in class last week. I’ve transcribed it roughly below. For a bit of context, the language point was going to for future plans, and the language had been presented through a listening…. Read More ›

• Subject knowledge, jargon, learners

  By Pete on May 15, 2018 • ( 2 )

  

  This is a post aimed at candidates about to take a diploma course, but is still relevant to all. It also loosely connects to Sandy’s recent post about mistakes you’ve made in class (click here).

• 1000 words on… Correcting spoken errors

  By Pete on May 14, 2018 • ( 6 )

  

  This is an interesting topic I’ve been revisiting this week. I wrote about it during my diploma (see here) and I like how relevant and applicable this topic is to my classroom practice. Lyster and Ranta (1997) suggest that there… Read More ›

• I clearly love coursebooks

  By Pete on April 17, 2018 • ( 26 )

  

  I always feel embarrassed when I speak up for coursebooks. I think I’m supposed to hate them. Everybody else seems to, so I guess that’s the right thing to do. According to Steve Brown’s latest post (well worth a read),… Read More ›

• Article for Modern English Teacher: using Quizlet in teen classes

  By Pete on April 4, 2018 • ( 5 )

  

  Here’s my article for the latest Modern English Teacher, April 2018. I did a bit of action research on using Quizlet in class, which I mentioned before in this post. Sorry about the graphs, Scribd makes them look a bit… Read More ›

• DipTESOL: introduction to the phonemic chart

  By Pete on April 1, 2018 • ( 3 )

  

  This is an introductory session on the phonemic chart for trainees taking the DipTESOL. I’ve designed this to supplement input given via distance learning courses, to be run in-house. It’s meant to help trainees give a basic explanation of the… Read More ›

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