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Easy Way to Plan your English Class! - NEW VIDEO!

Easy Way to Plan your English Class! – NEW VIDEO!

Using a Real Text to Teach an English Class

Cast aside your outmoded EFL course book and try using a real text instead! In this free video I talk about using a text I recently found online, about the oldest pub in Britain:

Britain’s oldest pub forced to close ‘after 1,229 years’

I use the You Are The Course Book – Mode 2 framework to plan and run the class:

You Are The Course Book - Mode 2

You Are The Course Book – Mode 2

It really doesn’t take long to plan the class, once you have picked your text, found the topic, highlighted the target vocabulary, identified relevant grammar points, and planned some free practice activities – all based on the text. Find out more with this free manual:

https://purlandtraining.com/free-books/free-elt-book-you-are-the-course-book-lesson-plans-by-matt-purland/

There are more great tips for using a real text here:

Ideas for Using a Real Text in an ESL Classroom

If you try it, do let me know how it goes and how your students react! Find Purland Training on Twitter and Facebook or contact me here.

Punctuation Practice – Full Stops 1

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Add full stops to this text:

My name is Daniel I went to Glasgow University between 1992 and 1995, where I studied British History I lived in a basement flat in Cherry Tree Road with my friends Colin and Trevor We had a lot of good times I probably spent too much time playing sport and not enough time working on my assignments My favourite sport was basketball I still play it now, although not as often as I would like to After graduating I got a job working at Glasgow Central Library The money wasn’t bad, but the work was not to my taste, so I left after a few months

Later on I did teacher training in Norwich and became a Norfolk Adult Education teacher I got an amazing job training teenagers with learning difficulties Both this job and my degree came in really useful when I started writing fiction for young adults My nineteen books are all set in different periods of British history They involve a bunch of teenagers from the present day searching for answers to historical questions, like why the Romans left Britain My son Anthony is at university at the moment He’s studying Modern Languages at Exeter

Get the answers by downloading the free workbook Big Grammar Book 2.