Talk2Me English : Top 10 Tools for Creating Teaching Materials

UPDATE: Featured blog of the month!! I am very proud to announce that this post has been awarded the 'Blog Award for Innovative Teaching Ideas' by Teaching English British Council.I am absolutely over the moon! I would like to take this opportunity to thank Teaching English for all their support and thank everyone who voted :-) Multisensory Materials: When planning a lesson I always take into consideration the fact that students process information in different ways, so I need to use a variety of instructional approaches to reach all of them. In this post I will 'put forward' some free and easy ideas on how to create original teaching materials: I have used a selection of 8 phrasal verbs with the verb PUT in order to demonstrate how the tools that I have discovered can be used to create original, multisensory materials and activities. 1.Exam time mind maps: Very user friendly, excellent for creating visual materials for visual learners. 2. examtime Quizzes: by emma_segev 4. 5. 6. Advantages:

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