Tuesday, January 23, 2007

No ideas for classes?

Have you ever felt so tired that you just had no creativity to prepare your next lesson? Huh huh. After all, we're mere earthlings, and sometimes we just can't help it, right? For those moments of total lack of imagination, you can count on OneStopEnglish's teachers support team. Suggestions from 9 especialists about teaching methodologies, teaching with minimal resources and others. You will come up with a brand new lesson after reading it, believe me.

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To have a taste of specialist's ideas of teaching with minimum resources, click here.

Working with pronunciation

Nice and complete article on ESL teaching pronunciation. Read about the importance of teaching pronunciation, how to teach it and not to teach it and different approaches to do so. Still on pronunciation, Antimoon presents lists of phonetic symbols with printable version and recordings of American and British pronunciation in MP3 format.
ESLGold offers pronunciation exercises and pratising using audio resources. Here you can have a good idea of the different sounds in English, listen and repeat the sounds of vowels, consonants, etc. It also presents a list of other links on pronunciation. The site - that is visually very clear and uses easy language to understand - also presents Speaking, Listening, Reading, Writing, Grammar, Vocabulary, Business and Idioms sections.

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TESl journal is just a must for English teachers. All the information you can get about teaching techniques, ideas for zero classes, free reading, writing and conversation lessons (really great ones by the way), culture, games, videos, articles, etc. The list just goes on and on. It's my "top 1" page when searching for information to increment my classes.