Course curriculum

    1. A little bit of housekeeping

    2. Learning a new language: intro and outline

      FREE PREVIEW

    3. Beliefs about learning and teaching

      FREE PREVIEW

    4. Difficulties for low level students and their teachers

      FREE PREVIEW

    5. Difficulties for low level students

      FREE PREVIEW

    6. Teaching the alphabet and choices

    7. Choices in teaching and learning

    8. Supporting learning or not. Traditional v Spiral syllabus

    9. Class management and adapting material

    10. Task and points for discussion

    1. Working from dialogues: intro and outline

    2. Russian two ways: grammar to conversation or conversation with grammar

    3. Dialogue building in action

    4. Integrating dialogue building with a coursebook

    5. Messaging: from dialogues to chunking and individualised practice

    6. Task and points for discussion

    1. Words are more important than grammar: intro and outline

    2. How vocabulary choices and examples can better enable communication.

    3. What do I do with mixed levels and what if I can't translate?

    4. Presenting vocabulary up front

    5. Collocation and grammaticalised lexis

    6. Putting it all together: presenting words with grammar

    7. Task and points for discussion

    1. Feel my pain: intro and outline

    2. Getting students to repeat and making sounds visible

    3. Phonics and reading

    4. Helping students hear outside a listening lesson

    5. Focus on hearing in the listening lesson

    6. Task and points for discussion

    1. Elementary is not beginner: intro and outline

    2. Making the most of grammar exercises

    3. Making the most of a vocabulary exercise

    4. Giving the students a voice: individualised portfolios

    5. Giving students a voice; Single word answers to whole class. one-to-one

    6. Whole class one-to-one in action: reformulating and noticing

    7. Giving students a voice: other vocabulary choices

    8. Task and points for discussion

    1. Thanks and further study

    2. Feedback

About this course

  • £150.00
  • 39 lessons
  • 1.5 hours of video content

  • Free webinar

    Every month we run webinars on teacher development and aspects of language and culture. With this course, you can choose one to participate in for free.

  • Facebook group

    Anyone who does one of our online courses will get access to our closed teacher development facebook group where you can discuss and share you ideas with colleagues.

  • Exclusive offers

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