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Activities using photos, an activity involving creating superheroes, a suggestion for using a music app and an idea for offering more challenge to advanced students.

Motivational Teaching by Nick ThornerOUP 2017 978-0-19-420042-4Motivation is an area of teaching that all teachers strive to improve on. Motivating a group of students can be quite a challenge, as what one class might find motivating others might find highly demotivating.Motivational Teaching offers a wealth of tips and ideas for increasing motivation in the language classroom. The book is intended for teachers of primary and secondary school students, but many of the techniques and tasks could be used with adult learners as well. In fact, the author’s stated aims include raising learner motivation across ages, abilities and backgrounds.The book...

Many of us would like our students to be better listeners. In our main feature, Ken Lackman and Danny Norrington-Davies outline their technique for improving their students’ ability to decode what they hear.

More tested lessons, suggestions, tips and techniques which have all worked for ETp readers.

Reflecting on Critical Incidents in Language Education helps empower teachers in their own development and encourages the use of their experiences as material for self-growth.

Creative Output: Activities for Teaching Speaking and Writingby Gerhard Erasmus and Hall Houston Erasmus and Houston 2017 978-1-537-12828-3How do I keep my lessons interesting and fun over the long haul? This is a question most of us have had to ask at some point in our teaching careers. Students demand that their lessons should be both fun and interesting, perhaps more than ever, and it is part of the unspoken contract between the students and the teacher that they should be so. No matter how many training courses we have been on, and how many years of experience we...

As we all know, games can be both educational and fun for students. Adaptations of famous TV games often work particularly well as the students already know the format and enjoy watching them in their free time. Here are some games you may like, and which can be done in teams, competing for points.

Ivan Chong confesses how long it has taken for him to find a meaningful way to conduct feedback which consists of dialogue instead of a one-way transmission.

In this series, Nicky Hockly explains aspects of technology which some people may be embarrassed to confess that they don’t really understand. In this article, she explores the issue of internet copyright, Creative Commons and ‘fair use’.

Daniel Monaghan and Tessa Woodward end their series by applying their unifying framework to creation.

A shaggy dog story: a reordering reading activity for advanced students.  

In this series, Nicky Hockly explains aspects of technology which some people may be embarrassed to confess that they don’t really understand. In this article, she explores teaching online.

In the fifth article in their series on learner coaching, Duncan Foord and Daniel Barber look at how teachers can help students recognise and maintain their motivation.

Daniel Xerri believes that teachers need to grasp the nettle and turn themselves into confident writers.

A collaborative introductions activity; an activity to raise awareness of course objectives; and an account of cross-age tutoring in It works in practice.