Children: 10-12 year-olds By Olha Madylus In this section, find out how 10-12 year-old children learn and develop. Projects By now it is clear that students have very different approaches to learning and have distinct preferences and interests. Students can choose to work independently or with a partner(s) Get students to choose an animal, or the creative ones can create a new one! Games See related pages below. Six types of task for TBL In this article we look at different types of task, and see which kinds are most often used in textbooks. I also suggest ways of adjusting them so that they stimulate more opportunities for meaning-focused interaction, and encourage learners to give longer responses. Finally I show how a graded set of tasks can be developed on a theme. Identifying task-like activitiesIn my first article Criteria for identifying tasks for TBL, we looked at six questions that gave us criteria to help us identify tasks and ‘upgrade' potential task-like activities into tasks. So now we can identify activities in a textbook unit that could become tasks and form the basis of a task cycle with; Pre-task activities,Task - Planning - Report cycle,Post-task activities as illustrated in the activity Planning a class night out. However, tasks tend to come in various disguises. For example, in ‘Total English’, a text-book for beginners, the activity: ‘Who is your favourite 20th Century icon? Examples: Example:
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Listen and Write - Dictation Submit a new audio! New ReviewBeta GroupsBeta Popular Audios Language Review Training Video View Demo View Demo HOW TO ELT planning | TEFL tips, ideas and thoughts from a developing teacher English learning and teaching resources News in the English Language Classroom Whether it's fake news, real news, world news or just news to you, navigating and understanding the news in a second language can be a really useful way to gain some valuable and authentic insights into the culture of the language. In this article I'm sharing a collection of resources that you can use with your students to help them understand news stories in English. News in levels This is a really useful site that has news stories that students can read according to their level. The same story is offered at all levels and the site also includes some interactive quizzes for students so this is also useful for autonomous learning. Listenwise This is a great site that has lesson plans as well as listening activities for audio on a range of news related content. Newsela Again this is a great site with plenty of reading at a range of levels. Breaking News English This site has a vast collection of lesson materials designed around current news stories. News Literacy Project