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Poetry circles

Maaouia Haj Mabrouk finds that students and teachers delight in discussing poetry.

Preparing to teach: indirect speech

John Potts reports on indirect or reported speech

Preparing to teach: relative clauses

John Potts examines two types of clauses which give extra information.

Copy centre: preposition snap

Do your students complain that learning what preposition goes with which word is boring and/or difficult? Does your telling them that they just need to use them and practise them over and over again not fill them with enthusiasm? If so, Preposition Snap! may well be the answer.

Preparing to teach: relative clauses worksheet

John Potts looks at more aspects of relative clauses: plurals, contact clauses, coordinating clauses and reduced relative clauses.

Preparing to teach: conditional variations

John Potts considers a variety of conditional forms.

The mindfulness of Dogme

David Nield moves into a new teaching dimension.

No smoke without fire

Wayne Rimmer addresses burnout: a problem that is all too common for teachers, in his ETp article No smoke without fire.

21st-century teaching and learning

Fiona Baker identifies the important elements we should be teaching our children.

English teaching confessional: John Kay

John Kay reveals how he came off copier fluid with only minor withdrawal symptoms.

Disrupting education

Daniel Xerri calls for a sea change in education in general – and ELT in particular.

Coherence and cohesion in IELTS academic writing 2

Rory O’Kane suggests ways to help students improve their compositions for IELTS academic writing and produce texts that are more structured and meaningful.  

When to start?

Mandana Arfa-Kaboodvand talks to her students about their early learning experiences.

Metal guru

Brian Coughlan lightens his classes with some ‘heavy’ music.

Three takes on intonation

Mark Hancock suggests simple ways to start working on intonation.
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