Featured Section: Teaching Restartes
Committing Re-Starters in the EFL classroom
Customarily, the English-teaching community views re-starters or late starters of English with a suspicious eye. In the late 20th century, the media, the industry and cultural transformations have ...
Read MoreWHEN YOUR ENGLISH “RUSTS”
Can there be a comeback?
Psychologists Jeffrey Bowers, Sven L. Mattys, and Suzanne Gage from the University of Bristol performed an interesting survey a few years ago. They selected English native ...
Read MoreWhy do Language Learners Stop Lessons and why do we care?
Whenever I have to teach adults, most of the times I find out that they had English lessons some time in the past, but for various reasons they quit.
When dealing with restarters, in the beginning ...
Read MoreHow do you restart, refresh and refine your English?
More and more adults are signing up for English classes either to receive a certificate, refresh their long-forgotten skills or just be able to use English for professional or personal reasons. W...
Read MoreFeatured Section: Christmas Activities
Christmas Video Facts
This is a great simple activity to practice their reading and writing skills while talking about some unusual facts about Christmas.
Activity Time: 15 mins
Level: Teens...
Read MoreXmas Conversation questions
Over 25 different questions to get the class talking about Christmas.
Level: Teens and Adults all levels.
• Did you enjoy last Christmas? Why?• How do you celebrat...
Read MoreA game of Christmas Taboo
Christmas Taboo is a simple game you can play in class to revise Christmas vocabulary. The aim of the game is simple; each person takes a card and they must describe the word on the card without say...
Read MoreChristmas activities for the classroom
Make a Christmas Wishing Tree
1. Using green paper or card, have students trace around the outline of their hand.
2. Cut out the handprints.
3. Holding their handprint so that the fingers point d...
Read MoreGraded readers in ELT: the benefits and ways of using them
Graded readers or ‘readers’ are books that contain language adjusted to the level of the learner. The language is graded for vocabulary, complexity of grammar structures and also by the numb...
Read MoreFeatured Section: Learning Difficulties in the Classroom
Supporting those who teach learners with special educational needs: the role of the Academic Manager
In the last few years, emphasis on honing our teaching skills so that we can be effective teachers of all learners, regardless of their special abilities or weakenesses, has become the mains...
Read MoreΔυσαριθμησία: Οι Μαθησιακές Δυσκολίες στα μαθηματικά
Εισαγωγή
Η Δυσαριθμησία ως ξεχωριστή έννοια εμφανίστηκε από τον Αμερικανό R. Cohn, σε άρθρο του στο περιοδικό Archives of Neurology. Σε αυτό το άρθρο η Δυσαριθμησία περιγραφ...
Read MoreLearning Challenges
by Dimitris Maroulis
Paul Dirac was born in 1902, in Bristol. He is considered as one of the most important physicists of the 20th century. He was the father of antimatter creat...
Read MoreMind mapping and dyslexia: The current trend of graphic organizers for effective English language teaching
The common saying “a picture is worth a thousand words” gives prominence to the idea that an image is more powerful when engraved on our mind than a multitude of words. Visual ...
Read MoreSeven Steps to Better Control a Classroom with Students with Learning Disabilities
You have come to class having your lesson plan ready, well prepared for a lesson with a specific grammar and vocabulary target and minutes later Kostakis, who has been diagnosed with ADHD (A...
Read MoreΜΑΘΗΣΙΑΚΕΣ ΔΥΣΚΟΛΙΕΣ: Οδηγίες προς ναυτιλομένους
«Δεν υπάρχει μεγαλύτερη ανισότητα από την ίση μεταχείριση άνισων ανθρώπων»
Το σχολείο, το γνωρίζουμε βέβαια όλοι μας, είναι μια τεράστια πρόκλη...
Read MoreFeatured Section: Grammar
Young Learners: Having fun with Grammar
Young learners have a long time ahead of them with the language. There is no need to rush into technical rules and labels that will confuse. It seems likely to be far better to give children a sound...
Read MoreCan you put fun in Grammar Lessons?
Mention the word “grammar” and students will cringe. In fact, most teachers will cringe, too. Of course, teachers know correct grammar rules, but it’s one thing to know them, and another thing to...
Read MoreThe Grammar Acquisition Process
The whole second language acquisition process is cyclical and it involves six stages. They are: input, noticing, intake, structuring, proceduralization, and output. First of all, in the input stage,...
Read MoreGoals and Techniques for Teaching Grammar
Grammar is central to the teaching and learning of languages. It is also one of the more difficult aspects of language to teach well.
Many people, including language teachers, hear the word “gra...
Read MoreShould We Teach Grammar?
Dr Krashen is one of the world leaders in the fields of bilingual education, neurolinguistics, second language acquisition and literacy. He has authored over 250 articles and books and has recei...
Read MoreFeatured Section: Back to School
Transforming Last Year’s Experience into New Year’s Wisdom
The ability for assessing and decision making attested reality of all human-centered professions is their subjectivity to perpetual change. Therefore it is hard to attain perfection in all aspects. Th...
Read MoreSummer All Year Long: Back to school as smoothly as possible
So, it’s goodbye to August and hello to autumn! September blues! And yet there are no rules or regulations stating is has to be this way, so why do a certain percentage of the population write-of...
Read MoreFirst Lesson Planning
No matter how many years you have been teaching, September is always a month for reflection. You promise yourself that this year will be different, that you will set new goals, stick to them and be ...
Read MoreTeaching Junior Beginners via Skype
Teaching On Line is gaining popularity at lightning speed, mainly due to the advancement of technology and applications such as Skype, Google Hangouts and FaceTime, which work miracles for people wh...
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