I have been involved in education since 1990 and have worked all over the world as a language teacher, teacher trainer, technology trainer and educational technology consultant. In May 2012 I won a British Council ELTon for Excellence in Course Innovation for the Blended Learning in ELT course I designed for Bell Educational Services . I write and publish materials which make best use of educational technology.
I have been involved in education since 1990 and have worked all over the world as a language teacher, teacher trainer, technology trainer and educational technology consultant. In May 2012 I won a British Council ELTon for Excellence in Course Innovation for the Blended Learning in ELT course I designed for Bell Educational Services . I write and publish materials which make best use of educational technology.
Get your students speaking and developing their listening and conversation skills with this series of 10 engaging lessons for the remote, face to face or hybrid classroom.
Each of the 10 units contains around 120 mins of learning materials.
Level:
A2/B1 and higher
Topics
Unit 1 - Study skills and habits
Unit 2 - Mobile phone and social media use
Unit 3 - Dream homes and houses
Unit 4 - Holidays and travel
Unit 5 - Music and playing an instrument
Unit 6 - Shopping and clothes styles
Unit 7 - Sport and exercise
Unit 8 - Films and going to the cinema
Unit 9 - Interviews and talking about ourselves
Unit 10 - Describing products and making presentations
The book also includes a digital workbook for students that they can use on their mobile phone to access the classroom materials, make notes and do dome of the additional interactive tasks.
This ebook was designed with English language teachers in mind but should have some value for any teacher who is interested in developing their students’ digital literacy and critical thinking skills.
The book contains a wide range of suggested activities for both the creation and exploitation of infographics in the classroom.
It also helps teachers with tips and advice on how to plan and create infographics and suggestions for which tools to use to produce different types of infographic.
Exploiting Infographics follows on from 10 Lessons in Digital Literacy, which is a collection of lesson plans based around infographics, and looks in more depth at the genre and how infographics can be used as both sources of information and as creative learning tasks for students.
The tasks that accompany the infographics are intended to encourage students to think more critically about the information they are exposed to and to question the sources of information they find whilst browsing the internet.
Exploiting Infographics should help teachers to start creating their own tasks activities and lesson plans for students and to integrate infographics in a way that will enhance students’ critical thinking, digital literacy, language and communication skills.
This book has been designed to act as a practical resource that should help you to get a better understanding of the kinds of AI tools that are available and how to use them in the English language classroom.
The book does this through a series of chapters focusing on tools for teachers, tools for students and a collection of background reading.
All of the tools and reading texts in this book have tasks to accompany them that will help you orientate yourself to the materials and think more deeply and actively about how they can be used.
These tasks have been adapted from the online course version of the book, in which participants can share opinions, reflections and materials with each other. I would encourage you to do the same even if you aren’t part of the course.
Keep a journal and make notes as you work through the book and try the tasks.
Find another colleague you can talk to about the tasks and the example plans
Seek out opportunities to interact with and discuss what you are learning with other teachers and with your students.
Use what you are learning to run formal or informal development sessions for other teachers.
The book also includes a link to download a free copy of The Digital Toolbox.
The Digital Toolbox is regularly updated, and should help to keep you up to date with new developments and apps that are becoming available.
I hope you enjoy the book.
This book has been designed to act as a practical resource that should help you to get a better understanding of the kinds of AI tools that are available and how to use them in the English language classroom.
The book does this through a series of chapters focusing on tools for teachers, tools for students and a collection of background reading.
All of the tools and reading texts in this book have tasks to accompany them that will help you orientate yourself to the materials and think more deeply and actively about how they can be used.
These tasks have been adapted from the online course version of the book, in which participants can share opinions, reflections and materials with each other. I would encourage you to do the same even if you aren’t part of the course.
Keep a journal and make notes as you work through the book and try the tasks.
Find another colleague you can talk to about the tasks and the example plans
Seek out opportunities to interact with and discuss what you are learning with other teachers and with your students.
Use what you are learning to run formal or informal development sessions for other teachers.
The book also includes a link to download a free copy of The Digital Toolbox.
The Digital Toolbox
The Digital Toolbox is regularly updated, and should help to keep you up to date with new developments and apps that are becoming available.
I hope you enjoy the book.
With the advent of ‘Instapoetry’ on platforms like Instagram and TikTok, there seems to be a whole new generation open to creating, publishing and enjoying poetry. This lesson explores the motivation of a woman who writes poetry and encourages students to share their views of poetry. They also choose a poem to listen to and create a profile for an imaginary poet.
Aims:
To develop students' appreciation of poets and poetry.
Materials:
Teachers' guide (PDF)
Digital presentation
Dictation activity
Poet profiles activity
Reflection activity