There are over 600,000 word families in English, but students don’t need to learn all of them. Here, Damien Herlihy dives into ETpedia Vocabulary to explore how you can select vocabulary to teach in the classroom.

Finding, selecting, and adapting materials to supplement coursebooks and design more engaging lessons can be a really time-consuming task, and the results may not be as good as we expect. Here, Rubens Heredia shares 5 tips to create more effective materials for your English lessons.

A bad observation can damage the teacher and the observer. So how can they be improved? Damien Herlihy dives into ETpedia Teaching Training to suggest 10 things you can do before and during the observation to prevent disaster.

Teenagers can sometimes be a tough crowd and may not respond as well as we want to the activities we propose. However, they go all the way when they really engage with lessons. Here, Rubens Heredia shares five suggestions on how to grab and maintain teens’ attention in English lessons.

What are our students’ real pronunciation needs? Here, Damien Herlihy looks at 10 ideas from ETpedia Pronunciation that can help you find out. He explains how he has used these tips and activities in his own teaching practice, and suggests how you can do the same.

Have you made New Year resolutions for 2024? In this vlog, Rubens Heredia shares 5 teaching habits and common practices that he thinks we could resolve to ditch in the new year in order to make lessons more effective and fun.

How can we do a deep dive into classroom language, rather than focusing on shallow feedback? Drawing upon his own teaching experience, Damien Herlihy talks about the whats and whys of learner-generated texts using ideas from MET 32.6 and real-life teaching scenarios, and shares a detailed example on how to approach emergent language after a task.

Films and TV series are some of the most engaging pieces of authentic materials and have been used in English lessons for a long time. Watch to discover five ways to use films and TV series to make lessons more engaging and promote learning even outside the classroom.

How do you manage your time? Do you feel tasks pressing at the start of the week? Is it the same for your students? Drawing upon his own teaching experience, Damien Herlihy brings the concept of a time matrix to life using ideas from MET 32.5 and real-life teaching scenarios. It’s well worth watching to help get to grips with effective time management!

Phonemic transcription and phonemic symbols are very helpful tools to the English teacher. However, using them in lessons can be daunting to both teachers and students. Watch to learn about Ruben’s five tips to use phonemic transcription in lessons more effectively and confidently.

Hands up who teaches, or has teachers teaching, very young learners? What tips have you/they learnt along the way? What would you like to know more about? Drawing upon his own teaching experience, Damien dives into our new book, Teaching and Learning English in the Early Years, to reveal some teaching secrets you should know.

Projects can be a great way to make lessons more fun and relevant to students, helping them go beyond the English language and develop life skills. In this video, Rubens Heredia shares 5 tips to use projects more effectively in your English lessons.

What does the term ‘the magic 4s’ mean to you? Would you say there is magic or chaos in teaching four-year-olds? Watch Damian delving into this topic, and discover what he unearths… in doing so, you will also learn five ways you can get the most out of your young learner classes.

In this video, Rubens Heredia shares 5 ways you can use songs in your lessons.

How often do you use drilling in class? What benefits can you list? Watch to learn about the ELT pendulum and where drilling sits, before finding out about five drilling activities you can use effectively in the classroom from tomorrow.