Resources

The best way of arousing students’ interest in a reading or listening text are so-called advance organising techniques. In this tip on teaching teens, I give two examples of such activities. Do you want to try them out?

This video gives an insight into the seven-level young learners’ course.

Using a foreign language successfully in real life means creating sentences and saying or writing things we’ve never heard or read before. There are a number of ways how we as teachers can prepare students for that – check out some of my ideas!

“I have never ever heard a student asking for more homework before!” This quotation comes from a colleague whose teen students do their homework online. Check out how, and why it’s such fun for them!

When children get used to systematically applying their thinking skills, they will go through positive learning experiences, and will gradually learn to enjoy more challenging tasks. In consequence, their self-confidence will grow.

Basic thinking skills are important because they help the child make sense of the world, and they are required for the development of higher order thinking skills. Watch some examples of basic activities for the young learner classroom.

In this short training film, I show how to consolidate children’s vocabulary, while at the same time improving their concentration and structural thinking, through various exercises from Playway 2nd edition.

This is a short film that shows me teaching a group of six-year-olds a lexical set of animal vocabulary. Watch how I use multi-sensory means to help students remember the words better.

In this interview I answer questions posted by colleagues prior to the conference, from how long it takes to write a coursebook, to what future projects I might be doing, to my favourite film, among other things.

Have fun watching the children in a beginners’ class enjoying a funny sketch on DVD with Matt Devitt and his two children, Danny and Daisy. Might your students enjoy such sketches too?