Teachitworld - ELT resources

Topical lesson: No speaka da English

Wed, 1 Sep 2010 16:27:24 GMT

The 'Sport' feature from p22 of The Week magazine and accompanying lesson. Includes discussion about factors affecting language learning, work on skimming, scanning and vocabulary, and a task on how to help Fabio Capello improve his English! The PDF is the magazine page. The Flash file is an interactive version of the vocabulary task.

Can I try it on? (paper-based resource)

Fri, 27 Aug 2010 16:34:47 GMT

Dress the model then go clothes shopping yourself! For audio recordings of the clothes shop dialogues, please go to resource 14621 Can I try it on? (audio recordings).

Can I try it on? (audio recordings)

Fri, 27 Aug 2010 16:34:09 GMT

Audio recordings to accompany resource 11404 Can I try it on? (paper-based resource). This file is quite large and will probably work best if you save it to your computer and then play it.

Information questions

Fri, 27 Aug 2010 16:33:23 GMT

Essential and systematic practice questioning different parts of a sentence. Includes subject and object questions. Students do a worksheet individually then do an information gap task in pairs.

Polite responses quiz

Fri, 27 Aug 2010 16:33:06 GMT

A team game to test students' knowledge of conversational responses. Includes the classic 'How do you do' versus 'How are you?' and much much more.

Topical lesson: The key to a good night's sleep

Thu, 26 Aug 2010 09:48:18 GMT

The 'Health & Science' feature from p19 of The Week magazine and accompanying lesson. Includes a beautiful word cloud, a gapped version of the text, work on multi-word verbs in context and suggestions for related songs. The PDF is the magazine page.

Months of the year

Tue, 24 Aug 2010 11:00:37 GMT

A resource for the very lowest levels, including work on spelling, punctuation and pronunciation. Suitable for children and adults.

Would you like a glass of wine? (paper-based resource)

Mon, 23 Aug 2010 16:46:32 GMT

Learners list (and even taste!) their favourite drinks then practise offering and accepting some. For audio recordings of dialogues between native speakers, please go to resource 14622 Would you like a glass of wine (audio recordings).

Would you like a glass of wine? (audio recording)

Mon, 23 Aug 2010 16:39:47 GMT

Accompanies resource 11061 Would you like a glass of wine? (paper-based resource). This is quite a large file and will probably work best if you save it to your computer and then play it.

The tenth of May is my birthday

Mon, 23 Aug 2010 16:37:06 GMT

It's Bryan's birthday, but his family seems to have forgotten. Can be used to learn dates, words for family members and requests with 'Can you?'. For suggestions on how to use this type of resource, see the Illustrated stories notes in 'Teaching ideas'.

Finding Mr Right

Mon, 23 Aug 2010 16:32:47 GMT

Contemporary expressions for talking about relationships. Learners help each other to guess the meaning from context, then mime them to the class. Fun with older teenagers or young adults.

Sink estates and leafy suburbs

Mon, 23 Aug 2010 16:28:27 GMT

Up-to-date expressions for talking about housing. Learners are encouraged to share their knowledge and experiences so that the target words really stick.

Topical lesson: Russia suffers from heat and mismanagement

Thu, 19 Aug 2010 10:26:24 GMT

The 'Best articles: foreign' feature from p14 of The Week magazine and accompanying lesson. Includes using vocabulary from the text in other contexts, work on cleft sentences and a natural disasters role-play. The PDF is the magazine page. The Flash file is an interactive version of task 5 (matching).