Language

Josh Kurzweil describes a way of helping students practise and remember key structures

Is it possible to teach a communicative approach whilst insisting on grammatical accuracy? Biljana Naumoska-Sarakinska offers her opinions on which approaches work best for her.

Adrian Underhill presents a list of ten activities for raising students’ awareness of pronunciation along with their ability to speak and listen .

Inspired by the January 2018 issue of Modern English Teacher and a recent debate in his teaching centre, MET resident blogger David Dodgson addresses some common misconceptions about teaching pronunciation, and suggests some quick and easy ideas for incorporating more pron work into our classes.

Robbie Lee Sabnani discusses ways to improve students’ thinking and oral skills.

Thu Tran suggests ways of making reading more engaging.

Ben Dobbs discusses the language and soft skills required to delegate in English.

‘To be or not to be…’ This famous Shakespeare quote may be familiar to your students even if they haven’t read or seen Hamlet. In fact, given much of our everyday language contains expressions and idioms from Shakespeare, your students might recognise more words from his plays than they think. Consequently, it is worth tapping into his plays to enrich your language classroom.

Hung Hoang Le and Yimo Gou suggest ways of developing learners’ lexical knowledge.

Some simple activities aimed at helping your learners remember new words.