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Lessons in Your Inbox: Preparing Content for Online Teaching

The first instalment of Lessons in Your Inbox focuses on preparing content for online teaching, with a selection of extracts from Pavilion ELT's popular Teaching English and ETpedia series as well as relevant articles from English Teaching professional.

That’s what friends are for

Genevieve White suggests a friendly solution to fire up flagging classes.

Eye on the classroom: writing down your observations

A regular series by John Hughes, with practical ideas for observing teachers in the classroom and an observation sheet to photocopy and use straight away. In this article, John suggests some ways of providing written feedback.

It works in practice: partners in poetry, giving back written work and more

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

English Medium Instruction: Time to start asking some difficult questions

This keynote article considers some of the implications of this growing global phenomenon.

Visualising language

This article describes how different areas of the brain contribute to comprehension.

It really worked in practice!

The author tells how an ETp article helped her kill several birds with one stone.

Making platforms useful and sticky

This article argues that the content on learning platforms should have the same appeal and draw as popular mainstream websites and apps.

Book review – Progress to Vantage

John Hughes reviews a solid coursebook for pre-work students who want to get qualified and in-work students

Preparing to teach: comparatives and superlatives

John Potts makes another grammar point comparatively easy to understand

Connected speech

This article identifies some of the features of rapid connected speech that cause listening comprehension problems for most learners who are taught in ‘careful speech’ classrooms.

Facing up to the virus: tips for teachers still working in classrooms

Julian Burnley offers ten helpful tips for teachers who are still permitted to meet face-to-face with their students during the Covid 19 crisis.

What is business English, anyway?

Ben Dobbs explores the nature and nomenclature of the corporate teaching context.

Collaborative learning

In this article Michelle Shin talks about how she enables her students to take ownership by equipping them with team-based skills. [06-Mar-2015]

The rule of the day

This article recommends rules for getting real results.