Using the London 2012 Olympics in your English lessons
They are upon us at last. They do represent a great opportunity for project work, task based activities and lots of technology use, so they represent a great opportunity to feature them in lessons and getting your students enthused. IH have a blog on the IH Platform with a few basic ideas to help you [...]
Telephone Skills – An idea for teachers
I don’t know whether it would be of interest to anyone else but I was pleased with the effects of conducting one morning’s lessons via skpe. The student and I were in different rooms in the house and used our laptops with audio but no video. The topic was ‘numerology’..as far away from ‘ business’ [...]
Becoming a theatre critic in the land of Shakespeare!
My student, Henry, and myself have been talking quite a lot today about the theatre in London. I was telling him about my favourite theatres such as the Donmar and the Royal Court. We looked at various reviews of a play I saw last night at the Royal Court. It is called Love, Love, Love [...]
FAST FORWARD ENGLISH
Today the focus is on English in the cockpit. Thus we will develop RT and flight safety language. Such is the bread and butter of professional pilots. RT is best practised in an interactive environment, using mobile phones to recreate radios. I used to teach Omani fast jet crews, so I have more than enough materials [...]
Jens conquers English!
I come from Germany and I will study English for two weeks with Lorna Hotti in Harpenden. I work for a German papermill and need to use English with clients. We want to increase our sales figures worldwide and I will need English for my daily work especially on the telephone. So far we have [...]
RK news cont’d
Hi all…who’s counting? A v good day – no temptation to go out, take a break outside cos it’s cats ‘n dogs. Which prompts me to share a supa new thought – “idioms”. My student and I have been going through a list of English idioms, a good way to improve the perceived ability of [...]
Get your tongue moving
Using Tongue Twisters can be a fun way to break up a class in between activities. We have some practise sentences for you. Enjoy! Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers. A peck of pickled peppers Peter Piper picked. If Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers, Where’s the peck of pickled peppers [...]
More Ideas for Incorporating Pronunciation into Other Activities
Pronunciation does not have to be a separate activity in class. You can direct your student’s attention to pronunciation in a variety of ways: Listen to recordings from text books / podcasts / computer downloads, etc. Then you can: Choose a short passage and ask your student questions about the pronunciation and the accents Do [...]
