Resources

Looking for inspirational teaching tips, or handouts from an event that you’ve attended? You’ve come to the right place!

PechaKucha, IATEFL 2012

Glasgow, Scotland

This is me trying my first PechaKucha – a presentation format in which the speaker is allowed 20 slides, each running for just 20 seconds, out of his control, resulting in a very fast-paced talk that is hopefully also fun!

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Ways of Leading into a Text

Teaching teens - Tip 1

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?

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Herbert Puchta on Super Minds

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

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Developing creativity with Super Minds

Part II

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!

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Introducing MORE!

Cyber Homework

“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!

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Developing critical thinking skills

Teaching thinking skills with Super Minds

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.

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Developing basic cognitive skills

Teaching thinking skills with Super Minds

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.

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Consolidation of vocabulary and intelligence-building activities

Playway teacher training

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.

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Multi-sensory vocabulary drilling

Playway teacher training

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.

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An interview at IATEFL 2012

Glasgow, Scotland

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.

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