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Your students will be more successful if you match your teaching style to their learning styles.

Here are some suggestions to help get your students writing poems based around the theme of the future.

I prefer a deductive approach I prefer an inductive approach I use a mixture of both I use another approach

Last month we asked you about your preferred teaching methodology, this month, on a similar theme we'd like to know how you teach Grammar.

Teaching grammar is an important part of language teaching and there are different ways of apporoaching it - but which ways do you find most effective for you and your students? We received this question:

Belinda, China
"I'm a TEFL teacher in a senior high school. The biggest problem for me right now is grammar teaching. Traditionally, we use deductive approach to teach grammar, for it is easy to control and efficient, but it is quite boring both to teachers and students. Inductive approach, on the other hand, is rather demanding and rewarding, but it is too time-consuming. Could you tell me how to solve this contradiction?"

A deductive approach is one where the teacher directly presents the rule to the students.
An inductive approach is where the teacher encourages the students to work out the rule for themselves through relevant examples.

How do you approach grammar teaching?

 

This is a speaking task that encourages students to empathise with other people and try to understand them better.

This website hosts stories in powerpoint for teachers of very young learners.

Reg and Lellow

Do you think about colours, fonts and grouping when you use a board or prepare a presentation? Watch and listen to Tony's ideas and leave your comments below.

 

People spend a huge chunk of their everyday conversation time talking about themselves and the people they know, so the most natural thing in the world is for us to invite our students to do the same.

During this skills lesson you might want to use background music where facilities allow. You will also need some samples of music, not necessarily just in English, but a variety of different genres.

Topic: Music

Age: Teenage/adult

One of the good things about migration is the opportunities it brings for learning about other cultures.

The IATEFL Literature, Media and Cultural Studies (LMCS) SIG would like to invite you to tell them a bit about literature in your country or the country you live in: its classical and contemporary authors, their style, main works, influences and the impact they have on yourself as a reader.

Listening skills are hard to develop. Students can do a variety of work before listening to help them understand the listening.

Train was launched in May 2010, and is the place to go if you are looking for training materials for teachers and teacher trainers.

On this page you will find lots of ideas for classroom activities to help your students with revision.

Where were you when you heard about..? There are some news stories which leave nobody in any difficulty when answering this question, so even allowing for sensitivity to certain subjects in a classroom situation, there are already dozens of things most people can talk about.

Topic: News

Age: Teenage/adult

Task based learning Dogme Guided discovery Community language learning Communicative approach Total physical response Lexical approach The silent way I mostly follow the course book I just make things up I don’t know

 

We're revisiting a poll that received some interesting responses a couple of years ago. Which of these has had the strongest influence on the way you teach?

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She sells sea shells by the sea shore. How fast can you say it without making a mistake?

The first time I saw Cuisenaire rods being used in the language classroom I had no idea how much fun they could be.