Mind your CCQs!

Mind your CCQs!

Emma Cresswell

Blank faces in class?  Confused looks on your students’ faces? Repeating things time and time again?

We’ve all done it.  We’ve all asked our students “Do you understand?” and blithely moved on with the next activity, only to realise that no, they haven’t understood.

This is where CCQs come in.  By asking Concept Checking Questions to our students we can really find out if they have understood or not.  This workshop looks and the whys and hows on CCQ-ing as well as some useful tips and advice on how to get the most out of your CCQs.

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Activities and Games in the EFL Classroom

Activities and Games in the EFL Classroom

Amy Lewin

As any teacher knows it’s essential to have a bank of activities and games for your students to get stuck into language learning, be they adolescents or adults.  Requiring minimal preparation, any language seen in class can be turned into an engaging and enjoyable learning experience with these activities and games which will ensure you always have something up your sleeve for your lesson.

Games and Activities in the EFL Classroom

Dogme teaching in your school

Dogme teaching in your school: simple, practical, and totally engaging.

Alastair Grant

This is a copy of a session given at the 2012 International House DoS Conference in London, England

“It’s a great idea, but it would never work…”
Overheard at a recent ELT conference, this comment seems an accurate gauge of feeling towards Dogme teaching.
With its materials-light, conversation-based formula, Dogme has been as much misunderstood as it has been
praised; but one thing that all teachers seem to agree on is that it just doesn’t seem practical enough to really work
on a day-to-day basis. Until now!
This session will demonstrate how a textbook-free ELT course can be set up and run by you, transforming both the
engagement of your students and the motivation of your teachers.

Dogme for your school

Grammar in the Real World

Grammar in the Real World

Alastair Grant & Amy Lewin

All too often, our students have the feeling that grammar, far from being an integral part of learning how to use the English language, is actually something that tends to exist solely in between the pages of their coursebook.

This sessions is about helping your students to see that actually, grammar is an integral and essential part of language learning and that it is not only useful for them but… we really do use it!

Grammar in the real world  Friends – worksheet  Sun – agony aunt

Adapting Original Texts for the Classroom

Adapting Original Texts for the Classroom

James Orpin and Charlotte Wright

Getting bored of the textbook? Got a student who doesn’t want to learn from the textbook?

Use original material!

It’s everywhere you look: newspapers, magazines, radio, video, even leaflets or lost dog adverts are all prime places to find authentic use of the English language. However, selecting the right text, audio or video and turning it into a lesson complete with tasks, grammar extraction, receptive and prodcutive skills practises etc can seem like a lot of  hard work. Here are some tips designed to make that job a little easier.

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Activities and Games in the EFL classroom

Activities and Games in the EFL classroom

Alastair Grant

Any teacher knows it’s essential to have a “bank” of activities and games for your students to get stuck into language learning, be they adolescents or adults.

Requiring minimal preparation, any language seen in class can be turned into an engaging and enjoyable learning experience with these activities and games which will ensure you always have something up your sleeve for your lesson.

Activities and Games for Students

Internet in the EFL Classroom 2011

Internet in the EFL Classroom 2011

Emma Cresswell

The internet is constantly changing and so too are our students.  Following on from the original Internet in the EFL classroom, this new session looks at some other ways to use the internet in the classroom.

Internet in the EFL Classroom 2011 Internet in the EFL Classroom 2011

Teaching Grammar Using a Listening Text

Teaching Grammar Using a Listening Text

Robin Barnes

Using a listening text to present grammar to your students is a useful and versatile method. A helpful guide to implementing this commonly used technique.

Pros and Cons Of Intro Grammar through a text