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• Learn English through football

  By Pete on March 22, 2017 • ( 0 )

  

  Ball ball ball, footie footie footie! I’m a bit obsessed with the beautiful game, and I’ve taught plenty of students who are too! You may have come across Premier Skills English before, the British Council/Premier League site dedicated to teaching… Read More ›

• Teachers – which sea creature are you?

  By Pete on March 11, 2017 • ( 8 )

  

  I wrote a post a while back comparing learners to different birds. Svetlana at ELT-cation requested more, so here I’m comparing teachers with sea creatures. Which one are you? For a quiz version of this post click here. (Note: this… Read More ›

• Random realia and peculiar props

  By Pete on February 28, 2017 • ( 2 )

  

  I think it hit home about five minutes before the lesson: ‘Am I really going to base a 30 minute activity around this bottle of murky water? Surely this can’t work…’ Most of the activities I’ve tried from ‘Teaching Grammar… Read More ›

• What I learnt from my first TESOL conference

  By Pete on February 28, 2017 • ( 3 )

  

  Finally, some time to reflect on CamTESOL, which was held on 18-19 February. It was my first ever teaching conference (both attending and presenting), so thought I’d jot down a few reflections. Presenting is tough but rewarding… Teaching and presenting… Read More ›

• Lesson ideas: football and conditionals

  By Pete on February 11, 2017 • ( 6 )

  

  Looking for a way to teach/review conditionals? A former colleague at LTC Eastbourne (cheers Angel) told me that football was his ‘go to’ topic for conditional structures… Show the students a league table (or part of it): source: http://www.bbc.co.uk/football Use actual… Read More ›

• Supporting young learners

  By Pete on February 1, 2017 • ( 1 )

  

  Young learner classes at our school are mostly organised by age. This means there can be quite a range of abilities, and differentiation* is an important part of planning.  I generally find that our materials can be a bit on… Read More ›

• Present perfect game

  By Pete on January 22, 2017 • ( 4 )

  

  I’m on good form! It’s been a fun weekend of classes. Today I tried out a new task for practising the present perfect (life experiences). Well, it wasn’t exactly new, just a variation on a few well-known tasks. Still, it… Read More ›

• Making it up as you go along…

  By Pete on January 21, 2017 • ( 2 )

  

  I had a brief chat with TalkTEFL after class about how some activities we make up during class work better than the things we plan! Today was a prime example. My teen class were really lacking a bit of get… Read More ›

• My TEFL articles

  By Pete on January 17, 2017 • ( 5 )

  I’ve just uploaded a few of my articles to Scribd. Hopefully I’ll have more to add in the future… Click here for advice on writing for ELT magazines. Here’s an article I wrote in July 2015 for ETp on error correction…. Read More ›

• Reasons to explore your staffroom

  By Pete on January 11, 2017 • ( 8 )

  

  What’s your staffroom like? Do you know what’s in all those cupboards and drawers? Is there dust collecting on most of the supplementary materials? What’s in that unlabelled ring binder? I’m lucky to have worked in some really well-stocked staffrooms…. Read More ›

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