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 | Cultural Awareness This course is part of our mini-series on intercultural communication. Make sure you have already done the introductory course: "Getting Started with Intercultural Awareness" before you do this one. You may also like to do the course "How culture... | ||||
 | Word Classes This series of courses is designed to help you deeply understand the various word classes (parts of speech), so you can confidently understand the differences between nouns, verbs, adjectives and adverbs in English, even in potentially difficult... | ||||
 | Word Classes The first course in this series (Digging Deeper into Word Classes) will have introduced you to some linguistic concepts which are relevant to understanding word classes. In this course, we apply those concepts to the four major English word... | ||||
 | Group Dynamics In a busy teaching environment with a syllabus to follow and exams to prepare for, there may seem little time for the apparent luxury of group dynamics activities. This course offers some practical, instantly useable, suggestions, for activities... | ||||
 | Vocabulary This course provides a good foundation for how to teach vocabulary in the classroom. It covers classic pitfalls to avoid, which vocabulary to teach, and how to teach it for the first time.
Author: Joanna Smith | ||||
 | Contexts All the different acronyms in the ELT industry can be confusing. There's EFL, ESOL, EAP, ESP and the list goes on. Is there really any difference? Aren't we all just teaching English? In fact yes, there is a difference. The context matters. In... | ||||
 | Verb Forms This course will help you to learn what all the different verb forms in English are called. In a later course, you will learn what the different functions of the forms are.
Author: Joanna Smith | ||||
 | Reading In the typical timetable, the English teacher has lots of aspects of the language to cover. So is there really time for Extensive Reading? The answer is yes! This course stresses the fact that Extensive Reading, or ER, is an indispensable part of... | ||||
 | Classroom Management How do we handle classes that have different levels of students in them? How do we teach for mastery of the language, not just passing exams? How do we use technology and other resources to ensure we're being efficient with our time? Flipped... | ||||
 | Group Dynamics Have you ever had a wonderful group? Have you ever had a difficult group? What made them like that? Most teachers are aware that some groups simply 'work' better than others. Why is this? And is there anything we can do as teachers to improve the... |
