Course curriculum

  • 1

    Live Lessons

    • Jan 6th 2pm: Understanding where you can add value

    • Jan 13th 2pm: Making the most of Speaking

    • Jan 20th 2pm: Exploring vocabulary and supporting speaking

    • Jan 27th 2pm: Exploiting reading texts
  • 2

    Problems #1 and #2 I don't cover as much as I want and the students don't make enough progress

    • Intro and outline: choose your coursebook

    • Coursebooks Intro

    • Assessing how much time you have for the coursebook

    • Problem #1: I don't cover as much as I want

    • Completing the coursebook = completing the level

    • Assessing content and level of your coursebook

    • Language and learning

    • Problem #2: students don't make the progress I want

    • Discussion and tasks
  • 3

    Problems #3 and #4: underplanning and overplanning

    • The desire for photocopies and preparation: care and guilt

    • Some further issues with coursebooks and two common designs

    • Two mindsets and adding value

    • Task and Discussion points
  • 4

    Problems #5, #6 and #7: not enough speaking, we can't cover enough grammar and students don't talk

    • Intro and outline: adding and supporting speaking

    • Questions about speaking

    • Recognising all the opportunities for speaking and the affordances they give

    • Exploiting affordances and covering grammar

    • From planning to classroom practice

    • Problem #7: The speaking task fails

    • Task and Discussion points

  • 5

    Problems #8 and #9 students don't don't know enough vocabulary and they don't use what I teach!

    • Supporting speaking through vocabulary: Introduction and outline

    • My vocabulary teaching

    • The Problem of Lexical Sets

    • Supporting speaking: choosing the right words

    • Plan better: examples models and patterns

    • Thinking about the questions we ask

    • Plan better questions: exploring co-text

    • Plan better questions: exploring other aspects of word knowledge

    • Adding speaking: personal questions based on vocab

    • Tasks and points for discussion
  • 6

    Problem #10: the text is boring

    • Intro and outline: Texts and purpose

    • Assessing the texts in a coursebook

    • Plan better: Increase interest and engagement through speaking tasks

    • Plan quicker: simple tasks to focus on language

    • Plan better: integrating new tasks with the coursebook

    • Task and points for discussion
  • 7

    Problems #11 and #12: students forgetting and the lack of recycling

    • Intro and outline: methodology and recycling

    • Revision: you, your book and your students' notes

    • Making use of all the coursebook support

    • Making use of the wordlist and supporting homework

    • Revision and making use of students' notes

    • Task and points for discussion
  • 8

    Planning a unit

    • Intro and outline: A final word on grammar

    • Task: planning a unit from Outcomes

    • Following a unit from Outcomes
  • 9

    Links and Feedback

    • Additional reading and links

    • Feedback

  • Self-study material and Free webinar

    As well as access to the full self-study material for one year so you can follow-up on and revise what we covered in the live sessions, you can attend one of our bi-monthly webinars for free.

  • Facebook group

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