Articles on Teaching Tips (Page 1)

A big list of vital tips on how to teach IELTS Academic Writing Task 1, in order of usefulness

Teaching tips and classroom activities for future times like "in two days", "within five working days" and "by the end of this week", including common issues with future time expressions.

Teaching tips and classroom games and activities for time expressions with at, in, on, no preposition etc

Teaching tips, games and other classroom activities for regular and irregular plural nouns.

The big list of regular English plurals ending in -s, -es and -ies, arranged by level

Teaching tips and classroom games/ activities for "seven o'clock", "nine p.m.", "sixteen hundred hours", etc.

Teaching tips and classroom activities for plurals without -s like "children", "sheep" and "alumni"

Teaching tips, games and other classroom practice for first, second, third, etc.

Classroom games and teaching tips for "The first of December two thousand and one", "January twenty second nineteen seventy", etc.

Games and other classroom activities to help students memorise and be able to use months from January to December

Teachings tips, games and other classroom activities for memorising how to say and spell Monday, Tuesday, etc.

Teaching tips and game ideas for short answers like "Yes, I do", "No, he hasn't" and "Yes, there are"

Teaching tips and classroom games/ activities to present and practise Yes/ No questions like "Is this umbrella yours?" and "Did you have a good time?"

Teaching tips and classroom activities for helping students France/ French, Switzerland/ Swiss, etc.

Teaching ideas and stimulating practice activities for adjectives with more, most, -er and - est.

How to present and practise English abbreviations that come from Latin such as "e.g.", "i.e." and "PS"

Ways to present and practise short forms of words and expressions such as "info", "lab", "50p" and "PS".

How to present and practise the meaning and use of abbreviations like "ASAP", "IoT" and "VIP"

A complete guide to teaching students how to understand written colour words, including fun word recognition games.

How to usefully, efficiently and productively use colouring in to teach all kinds of language and skills

The nine stages of teaching colour vocab, from understanding what "red" means and being able to write "green" to discussing the psychological effects of different colours.

Tips on teaching adjective opposites, verbs with opposite meanings, etc.

How to present and practice gradable adjectives and extreme adjectives like hot/ boiling and big/ huge, including how not to mix them up with other kinds of ungradable adjectives.

Teaching techniques and classroom activities for adjectives that end in ed and ing like bored/ boring and tired/ tiring.

Teaching suggestions and classroom activities for shopping phrases and language for shop staff.