Articles on Teaching English (Page 2)

How to teach the imperative

Category: Teaching English Topic: Verbs and Tenses
Teaching tips and classroom activities for imperatives for offers, emailing, telephoning, presentations, instructions, commands/ orders (and not requests!)

How to teach subject questions

Category: Teaching English Topic: Questions
Teaching tips and classroom activities for wh word + main verb questions, including subject question games.

How to teach Social English

Category: Teaching English Topic: General
Teaching tips and classroom activities for the language needed to meet people, socialise, and smoothly start and finish conversations.

How to teach indirect questions

Category: Teaching English Topic: Questions
Embedded questions games and teaching tips

How to teach restaurant language

Category: Teaching English Topic: Vocabulary
A guide to teaching language for hosts, guests and staff in restaurants.

How to teach positive and negative connotations

Category: Teaching English Topic: Vocabulary
Teaching tips for presenting and practicing positive and negative words and expressions

How to teach advice, recommendations and suggestions

Category: Teaching English Topic: Functions & Text
Teaching tips, games and other classroom activities for "should", "If I were you", "I would suggest", etc.

How to teach making and responding to invitations

Category: Teaching English Topic: Functions & Text
Teaching tips and classroom activities for making, accepting and politely rejecting invitations.

How to teach small talk

Category: Teaching English Topic: Discourse
Teaching tips and classroom activities for the difficult skills of smoothly chatting when meeting people, starting phone calls, ending meetings, etc.

How to teach small talk questions with how

Category: Teaching English Topic: Questions
Teaching how to ask, respond to and extend conversations with "How are you?", "How was your weekend?" etc.

How to use body language and gestures in EFL classes

Category: Teaching English Topic: General
An overview of gestures and other body language in English classes, including games and other teaching activities

How to teach international body language and gestures

Category: Teaching English Topic: General
A guide to presenting and practising variations in body language and gestures around the world

Aptis Speaking Part One- Preparation Tips

Category: Teaching English Topic: Exam Traps and Tricks
How to prepare for and teach Aptis Speaking Part One personal questions

Teaching pronunciation through body language and gestures

Category: Teaching English Topic: Pronunciation
How teachers and students can use their bodies to make English sounds easier to pronounce and remember.

The big list of classroom language with gestures

Category: Teaching English Topic: General
Nearly 100 classroom instructions and explanations that can be accompanied by gestures, with descriptions of how teachers can use their bodies.

How to teach British and American English

Category: Teaching English Topic: Varieties and Dialects
The most important differences between UK and US English, and the best ways to present and practise them.

How to teach British and American times, dates and numbers

Category: Teaching English Topic: Varieties and Dialects
Differences in British and American times of day, dates, large numbers, units, etc, with teaching ideas and classroom activities

How to teach British and American spelling and punctuation

Category: Teaching English Topic: Varieties and Dialects
Teaching tips and classroom activities for colour/ color, kilometre/ kilometer, commas in lists, and other British and American spelling and punctuation differences.

How to teach British and American grammar

Category: Teaching English Topic: Varieties and Dialects
How to present and practise the most important grammatical differences between British and American English

How to teach British and American functional language

Category: Teaching English Topic: Varieties and Dialects
Important differences in requesting, thanking, etc in the US and UK, including how to teach those differences.

How to teach giving and asking for directions

Category: Teaching English Topic: General
Teaching tips and classroom activities for showing people where to go with "go straight ahead", "turn right", "take the second turning on your left", "opposite the station", etc.

British and American body language and gestures

Category: Teaching English Topic: Varieties and Dialects
A guide to gestures and body language in the UK and USA, including differences and similarities, and comparisons to other countries.

How to teach TOEIC Listening Part Two: Question Response

Category: Teaching English Topic: Exam Traps and Tricks
Teaching tips and classroom practice ideas for the question-response tasks in TOEIC Listening Section Two

How to teach present time expressions

Category: Teaching English Topic: Verbs and Tenses
Teaching tips, games and other classroom activities for "at the moment", "often", "once every two weeks" etc with Present Simple and Present Continuous.

How to teach the language of feelings

Category: Teaching English Topic: Vocabulary
Teaching tips and classroom activities for the language emotions, from very young learners to advanced learners.

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