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For some great reading related to this topic, read Guy Cook's article at The English Teacher Website:

http://elt.au.edu/

The article is called Old Dogmas, New Directions.

If you want to get some extra language practice out of just one sentence (taken from the coursebook, a handout, or even from the student's own work), try some of these short activities. 1> Write the sentence up on the board. Then call on students to come up and change 1, 2 or 3 words. 2> Write the s...

Here's my two cents: I agree with Sita here. I have read three books on NLP, and was very unimpressed with all of them. All the books seem to hype NLP excessively as if it were a new religion or political movement. The worst of the bunch was In Your Hands, a book of NLP activities for the ESL teache...

Here are a few ideas for using song lyrics in the ESL classroom. 1) Make a recording of a few snippets of a song you want to teach (for example, a drum break, part of a guitar solo, the opening of the song, a tiny piece of the chorus, etc.). Ask students to guess what some of the lyrics are and writ...

An activity I've used several times with great success is the lyrical letter activity. This activity is based on the rationale that students can absorb a song better if they work with the lyrics before hearing the song. It involves all 4 language skills and usually takes at least an hour and a half ...

Here are some activities I have used successfully to introduce new vocabulary before giving students a text. 1) Scatter 10 - 15 vocabulary words all over the board. Call on students to come up one by one to circle two words and make a sentence using both. 2) Write some key vocabulary words on the bo...