Free podcast featuring new ideas for teaching English as a Foreign Language for summer 2017!
Can you teach an old dog new ELT tricks?
Click here to download the podcast (Google Drive)
Yes, you can in my case! Here are some of the new lesson ideas that I tried out while working at a language school in the UK this summer. Feel free to try them yourselves – they worked really well for me! If you need any further information about the activities, please contact me here or via Twitter @purlandtraining
Free image courtesy of Pixabay: https://pixabay.com/en/jenga-wooden-blocks-game-play-2558356/
Here is the full list of activities mentioned in the podcast:
- Rank five things in order of importance
- What did you do last night?
- 29% of English words come from French
- Create your own country
- World tour – plan a 25-day trip
- Group quiz with Jenga blocks
- Talent show
- Haiku – writing poems with 3 lines: 5 syllables / 7 syllables / 5 syllables
- Introducing English slang words and phrases
- What to do and say at the airport
- House prices quiz
- Find a thing starting with the letter…
- Create your own bakery (see here: http://purlandtraining.com/2017/07/16/free-podcast-create-your-own-bakery-free-lesson-plan/)
- Is British English better than American English? (see here: http://purlandtraining.com/free-lessons/podcasts/is-british-english-better-than-american-english/)