Pavilion ELT Vlog from Damien Herlihy

Games are a great way to engage teenage language students, and offer a whole host of different benefits. Here, Damien Herlihy dives into ETpedia Teenagers to explore 10 games your teenage students will enjoy.

How can you deliver clear and effective instructions to young learners? Here, Damien Herlihy dives into ETpedia Young Learners to explore how you can master giving instructions to avoid confusion and chaos in your young learners classroom.  

How can you ensure you are making the right choice when recruiting a new member of staff? Here, Damien Herlihy dives into ETpedia Management to explore how you can win gold with your recruitment practices and get the right fit each time.

There are over 600,000 word families in English, but students don’t need to learn all of them. Here, Damien Herlihy dives into ETpedia Vocabulary to explore how you can select vocabulary to teach in the classroom.

A bad observation can damage the teacher and the observer. So how can they be improved? Damien Herlihy dives into ETpedia Teaching Training to suggest 10 things you can do before and during the observation to prevent disaster.

What are our students’ real pronunciation needs? Here, Damien Herlihy looks at 10 ideas from ETpedia Pronunciation that can help you find out. He explains how he has used these tips and activities in his own teaching practice, and suggests how you can do the same.

How can we do a deep dive into classroom language, rather than focusing on shallow feedback? Drawing upon his own teaching experience, Damien Herlihy talks about the whats and whys of learner-generated texts using ideas from MET 32.6 and real-life teaching scenarios, and shares a detailed example on how to approach emergent language after a task.

How do you manage your time? Do you feel tasks pressing at the start of the week? Is it the same for your students? Drawing upon his own teaching experience, Damien Herlihy brings the concept of a time matrix to life using ideas from MET 32.5 and real-life teaching scenarios. It’s well worth watching to help get to grips with effective time management!

Hands up who teaches, or has teachers teaching, very young learners? What tips have you/they learnt along the way? What would you like to know more about? Drawing upon his own teaching experience, Damien dives into our new book, Teaching and Learning English in the Early Years, to reveal some teaching secrets you should know.

What does the term ‘the magic 4s’ mean to you? Would you say there is magic or chaos in teaching four-year-olds? Watch Damian delving into this topic, and discover what he unearths… in doing so, you will also learn five ways you can get the most out of your young learner classes.