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Teacher Articles on Teaching English for Specific Purposes

The 'Teaching English for Specific Purposes' category provides a wealth of articles designed to enhance your understanding and skills in this specialised area of English language teaching. It offers practical advice, innovative teaching methods, and insights into the unique challenges and rewards of teaching English for specific purposes. This resource is particularly beneficial for educators and academics seeking to refine their approach and deliver more effective, tailored English language instruction.

9 fun English for security guards activities

Stimulating ways to practise the language and skills needed to use English while guarding a building

How to teach English for the packaging industry

English for staff in packaging companies teaching ideas, also good for students who buy from and supply packaging companies, and for Technical English classes more generally.

300 Technical English abbreviations list

The most useful acronyms and other short forms for engineers and other technical staff

Colloquial expressions for medical terms

Everyday English for medical jargon, to be used by patients, doctors, nurses and other people using or studying Medical English.

How to teach the language of trends

Presentation and stimulating practice for describing changes, one of the most important kinds of business/ ESP language.

First lessons for Academic Writing classes

Starting courses for people who need to write essays and academic papers in English.

The ESP approach - Theory and reality of needs analysis and course design

Adapting the nice ideas of needs analysis and course design to the situations we actually teach in.

How to use the topic of inventions in EFL classes

New technologies as a stimulating and useful topic for ESP and General English classes.

How to Teach English for Engineers

A short guide to the why, what and how of teaching students studying or working in technical areas.

Teaching Travel English

Tips for teaching learners who will be travelling

Preparing for your first Business or ESP class

Although most people who become specialist Business English or ESP (English for Specific Purposes, such as Medical English or Financial English) teachers enjoy it and its professional benefits so much they never look back, the first time you face students

Whose Needs Are We Serving?

How Is The Design Of Curriculum For English For Medical Purposes Decided?

Teaching English for Specific Purposes (ESP)

How is English for Specific Purposes (ESP) different from English as a Second Language (ESL), also known as general English?

Technical Writing & Communication: What & Why?

Explore the crucial role of technical communication in engineering education, its practical applications, and the need for improving these skills for professional success.

Changing The Paradigm For Medical English Language Teaching

Medical English should be taught from the perspective of medicine and health care first and foremost while reinforcing vocabulary acquisition, grammar and structure secondly.

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