The challenges of speaking in B1 classrooms.
Speaking is the active use of the English language to express not only meaning but also personal ideas and feelings. There is a big discrepancy between understanding the English language and being abl...
Which listening activities do your students like the most at B1 level?
On exploring this issue, due to the gadgets and apps accessible to the majority of learners these days, one might expect to hear that, anything related to modern technology -from a podcast to an annou...
B1 Level, the pillar of language acquisition
B1 level has been characterized as the pillar in the acquisition process concerning the L2 language. This can be easily justified if we take into account the fact that at this level, students are aske...
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Reflecting on Quotes in Class/Life
Learning a foreign language is an emotional roller coaster mixed with amazing highs and frustrating plateaus. Many a times you feel like you’re not making any progress at all. It’s so easy to become d...
How Teachers Can Use Their Hobbies to Boost Student Engagement
Infusing lessons with their personal interests can help teachers model the benefits of perseverance and curiosity.
When you’re a teacher, a big part of your job is battling student misconceptions. Of...
The four Cs as Global Skills
Living in the 21st century world can be complicated and stressful. A lot of the interpersonal and interactive skills that we need in our everyday lives – things such as digital literacies, intercultur...
Teaching Success the Dweck Way
In New York Concrete jungle where dreams are made of There’s nothin’ you can’t do Now you’re in New York These streets will make you feel brand new Big lights will inspire you Let’s hear it for New...
Cut, cut, cut… Steps to adapt during writing and speaking
Throughout my professional life, I try to be flexible! Flexible to the lesson plans I create, to the materials, to the way I manage and lead my classes. This is sometimes difficult as we have to take ...
101 EFL Activities for Teaching University Students is a new book by Hall Houston, published by iTDi Publishing.
It’s a book for teachers of EFL classes at universities, containing a variety of language learning activities that can be used throughout the semester. However, teachers of other subjects (not to...
Do We Really Need Language Certificates?
By Katherine Reilly, Author, Teacher Trainer
Yikes! Are we actually going there? In a market that is constantly changing, one would question the necessity of acquiring a certificate which would pro...
Tell your Story: this IS your lesson
“Everything you look at can become a fairy tale and you can get a story from everything you touch.” ― Hans Christian Andersen
I’ve been teaching for more than 30 years. I’ve done everything I now r...
STEAM+E : Teaching English through STEAM
STEAM (Science, Engineering, Arts and Mathematics) has become a broadly recognized method of teaching all over the globe. There are many schools and organizations that are involved with it and they ...
Βιωματικές δράσεις και εφαρμογές στο πλαίσιο του Προγράμματος ΕΑΝ
Με μεγάλη χαρά σας προσκαλούμε στην Ημερίδα για εκπαιδευτικούς και ΣΕΕ ΠΕ06 & ΠΕ60 με τίτλο Βιωματικές δράσεις και εφαρμογές στο πλαίσιο του Προγράμματος ΕΑΝ η οποία θα πραγματοποιηθεί διαδικτυα...
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E Class? Who Cares! Let’s Just Skip over to Lower!
Since its conception, the CEFR (Common European Framework) has offered a reference for languages as regards learning, teaching and assessment. This has established a solid, yet immense network of serv...
Exams, exams, exams stress…perhaps, perhaps, perhaps
It’s this time of the year! Again! Another examination period is coming and with that stress, pressure, anxiety, lack of sleeping or bad eating habits appear. Is this normal? Well, if you take it fr...
Exam-Prep: The Good, The Bad, And The Ugly
The exam period is looming on the horizon, while practice tests, vocabulary lists, and more exam-related instruction begin to intensify. You are flirting with the idea of incorporating some extra s...
Exam Time and the teaching is…
It is not the first time ELT NEWS focuses on language exams and it won’t be the last. Our educational system relies on tests scores to discriminate strong and weak learners. In addition, the five o...
Communication can change your… colours
I bet you have all listened to this Cyndi Lauper song. Quite cheesy I would say as seeing the true colours of someone could lead not to love but to a million different emotions to start with. ...
Teacher well-being - ‘Teacher what?’
..you think to yourself when you see this title and you smile ironically but you start reading the article because you still want to -slash- need to think positively!
Let’s try to describe what a ...
IELTS online – the most trusted English test, soon from the comfort of your home
Get ready for IELTS Online, a flexible new way to take your IELTS Academic test.
English language test IELTS has announced that a secure online version of the exam will be rolled out globally in earl...
The history of the Cambridge Exams
Cambridge English Language Assessment is part of the University of Cambridge and has been providing English language assessments and qualifications for over 100 years. The first Cambridge English ex...
Using asynchronous learning to supplement the course
Admit it! The first thing that crossed your mind when you read supplementary material was handing out piles of photocopies to make up for last year’s lack of face-to-face teaching. No matter how co...
Successful Continuous Professional Development
Professional development is very important in educators’ personal and professional life. We have all seen teachers, who passionately attend preservice courses but are left unsupported afterwards. Th...
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Exams & Exam Preparation
E Class? Who Cares! Let’s Just Skip over to Lower!
Since its conception, the CEFR (Common European Framework) has offered a reference for languages as regards learning, teaching and assessment. This has established a solid, yet immense network of serv...
Exams, exams, exams stress…perhaps, perhaps, perhaps
It’s this time of the year! Again! Another examination period is coming and with that stress, pressure, anxiety, lack of sleeping or bad eating habits appear. Is this normal? Well, if you take it fr...
Exam-Prep: The Good, The Bad, And The Ugly
The exam period is looming on the horizon, while practice tests, vocabulary lists, and more exam-related instruction begin to intensify. You are flirting with the idea of incorporating some extra s...
Exam Time and the teaching is…
It is not the first time ELT NEWS focuses on language exams and it won’t be the last. Our educational system relies on tests scores to discriminate strong and weak learners. In addition, the five o...
IELTS online – the most trusted English test, soon from the comfort of your home
Get ready for IELTS Online, a flexible new way to take your IELTS Academic test.
English language test IELTS has announced that a secure online version of the exam will be rolled out globally in earl...
The history of the Cambridge Exams
Cambridge English Language Assessment is part of the University of Cambridge and has been providing English language assessments and qualifications for over 100 years. The first Cambridge English ex...
The 100% culture
In the English Language Teaching business our most-quoted number is 100. It’s all about 100%. Of what? Of language exams success of course! Everybody has to pass. 90% is not good enough. 70% is a to...
To take or not to take a language exam?
To take or not to take a language exam? The upcoming language exam session are just around the corner. The most common questions brought to our attention before choosing an examination body may vary...
A psychological perspective of B2 level exams
“The B2 level class room can be a board game with rules but also free-will during turn taking; choices bring about outcomes of winning or losing, but most importantly, of discovering that choice ...
Are they truly independent users of the language?
The goal of most foreign language learners is to reach the level of independent users of the language, i.e. to be able to do things like the following:
understand at least the main ideas of aut...
Education
Reflecting on Quotes in Class/Life
Learning a foreign language is an emotional roller coaster mixed with amazing highs and frustrating plateaus. Many a times you feel like you’re not making any progress at all. It’s so easy to become d...
How Teachers Can Use Their Hobbies to Boost Student Engagement
Infusing lessons with their personal interests can help teachers model the benefits of perseverance and curiosity.
When you’re a teacher, a big part of your job is battling student misconceptions. Of...
The four Cs as Global Skills
Living in the 21st century world can be complicated and stressful. A lot of the interpersonal and interactive skills that we need in our everyday lives – things such as digital literacies, intercultur...
Teaching Success the Dweck Way
In New York Concrete jungle where dreams are made of There’s nothin’ you can’t do Now you’re in New York These streets will make you feel brand new Big lights will inspire you Let’s hear it for New...
Cut, cut, cut… Steps to adapt during writing and speaking
Throughout my professional life, I try to be flexible! Flexible to the lesson plans I create, to the materials, to the way I manage and lead my classes. This is sometimes difficult as we have to take ...
Professional Development
Communication can change your… colours
I bet you have all listened to this Cyndi Lauper song. Quite cheesy I would say as seeing the true colours of someone could lead not to love but to a million different emotions to start with. ...
Teacher well-being - ‘Teacher what?’
..you think to yourself when you see this title and you smile ironically but you start reading the article because you still want to -slash- need to think positively!
Let’s try to describe what a ...
Successful Continuous Professional Development
Professional development is very important in educators’ personal and professional life. We have all seen teachers, who passionately attend preservice courses but are left unsupported afterwards. Th...
Doctors specialize, shouldn’t you as an English teacher?
In my experience of 32 years in the ELT trade I have seen and worked in most sectors and I have one thing to say: it’s about time that the majority of EFL teachers who teach general English move on ...
Life-long learning -those were the days…
It’s been a school year like no other. Τhere was a moment, last spring, when every parent suddenly realized how deeply their lives and livelihoods depended on an institution too often in the backgr...
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News
Using asynchronous learning to supplement the course
Admit it! The first thing that crossed your mind when you read supplementary material was handing out piles of photocopies to make up for last year’s lack of face-to-face teaching. No matter how co...
Adapting reading activities for the online classroom
The new classroom environment, the online classroom, involves adapting the printed coursebook we have been using so far, to fit the needs and demands of online teaching and learning. When adapting ...
Online Courses Due to COVID-19 Pandemic: A Cloud with a Silver Lining
The coronavirus pandemic has spurred the adoption of distance learning at all education levels all around the world. According to the World Economic Forum “the COVID-19 has resulted in schools shut ...
What helped me teach online
This year, as the pandemic hit and schools shut down, I had to re-invent myself as an online EFL teacher. Here’s a list of things I did to make my (and my students’) life easier.
1. Slow down
Onli...
Interviews
Consultancy Corner by Maria Araxi Sachpazian
In search of digital professionalism
The impact of social media on our field cannot be denied. The internet, even before social media, opened new paths for teachers to create their PLNs, to see samples of teaching and ideas applied in ...
Dealing with uncooperative exam candidates
By M.A.Sachpazian
The last article of 2020, a year as unexpected as no other before, is going to be a rather unusual one which touches on issues related with both teaching and management. In the ...
“Was I just bullied by this client, or did I imagine it?” Part A: What drives clients to behave like bullies?
By M.A.Sachpazian
In an era when bullying (at schools and in the workplace) is largely and openly discussed and no tollerance is shown for bullying of any kind, it is rather odd that professional ...
Supporting those who teach learners with special educational needs: the role of the Academic Manager
In the last few years, emphasis on honing our teaching skills so that we can be effective teachers of all learners, regardless of their special abilities or weakenesses, has become the mainstream...
Directing your school
The dictionary (www.oxforddictionaries.com) defines director as a person who is in charge of an activity, department or organisation. A second definition adds the aspect of the manager of busines...
Special Education Needs
The 3 Principles to Supporting Special Educational Needs Students
Research in the field of special educational needs and inclusion has equipped the educational community with evidence-based practices and ideas to support classroom diversity. How come that stude...
Teaching Dyslexic Learners Online
Technology is a gift for students with dyslexia, provided that it is used properly. This is because most dyslexic learners are visual learners and computer materials are designed to be accessed t...
Teaching Reading to students with dyslexia
Dyslexia is a specific learning disability that is neurological in origin. The person diagnosed with dyslexia face difficulties with accurate and fluent word recognition. What is more, poor spelli...
Teaching English to Dysgraphic Learners
Dysgraphia [dis-gra-fee-uh] is a learning disability that makes it difficult for a person to handwrite and organize written expression. Dysgraphia is not related to one's ability to read, nor is it ...
Mind mapping and dyslexia: The current trend of graphic organizers for effective English language teaching
The common saying “a picture is worth a thousand words” gives prominence to the idea that an image is more powerful when engraved on our mind than a multitude of words. Visual representations...