INFANTS / PRIMARY

Learning to listen and notice

Roisín O'Farrell suggests some practical activities to help Infant and early Primary pupils become aware of sounds.

  

PRIMARY

Having fun with tricky words

Continuing with the theme of phonics, Tracey Chapelton offers some ideas for how to turn tricky words to our advantage to work on pronunciation with our older Primary pupils.

                                                                                                     

Practising classroom English through games

Well chosen classroom language is essential for communicating with our pupils and giving them instructions. However, as Maria Toth illustrates, we can extend it far beyond these limitations with our Primary pupils.    

                                                                                 

SECONDARY

An Asterix adventure with MOODLE

What could a 50BC Gallic superhero possibly have to do with a 21st Century e-learning platform? They're certainly brightening pupils' English language learning experience of one school in Madrid, as Paloma Galán and Jesús Melgar Tito relate.

 

Five ways to get them speaking

Jim Scrivener serves up some fresh ideas for speaking activities to get our students thinking and speaking in English.

 

GENERAL

The Digital Revolution - Hey! You! Get off of my cloud!

James Dunne examines the benefits of cloud computing and the digital classroom.

CLIL CORNER

Developing CLIL language-assessment tasks

Ricardo Luceño Bermejo has devised a series of tasks to assess reading and writing skills in the CLIL classroom.

                         

TIPS AND TEACHERS' TALES

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