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6/3/24, 3:09 PM Gmail - A great practical teaching activity from Paul Seligson, ICQs revisited and my favourite site

urite site for free listening material...

Souraya Attia <[email protected]>

A great practical teaching activity from Paul Seligson, ICQs revisited


and my favourite site for free listening material...
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À : Souraya <[email protected]>

Hi Souraya,

Oh I've had a lovely week! What a joy it is to be in a real classroom with


enthusiastic CELTA trainees. Definitely one of my happy places. It's also
been a bit of a momentous week for me (in non-ELT related ways)
because my youngest son turned 20 yesterday. Feels like a bit of a
milestone - no more teenagers - hit reply if you can empathise!

On a different topic, I really wanted to give you a heads up about one of


my VoiCE alumni, Robert Martinez. He has been producing fantastic
video material at an incredible rate and I'd HIGHLY recommend his
YouTube channel Learning with Robert. He's got really useful (FREE)
ideas on classroom management and how to use AI effectively. Check it
out- and hit that subscribe button- it makes such a difference to the YT
algorithm.

Anyway, I digress. As always, lots of good stuff for you, so get your
beverage of choice, find a quiet spot and let's explore it all together....

Something old

One of the things that trainees find difficult, especially when they are
teaching at lower levels is giving instructions and checking that learners
know what they're supposed to do. This week, I've been reminded of

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that, so I thought I'd share with you my Ultimate Guide to Instruction


Checking Questions or ICQs- and Spoiler Alert... I think they can be
problematic and there are also other (better?) ways to check in this
video!​

Something new

My new video this week is something a bit special. It's a FANTASTIC,


low prep, practical idea ('Yay!' you say) and I've been wanting to make a
video about this since I saw Paul Seligson give a talk about it at the
IATEFL conference in April.

It's a simple concept but a very powerful one and something I'd never
seen before in 35 years in the ELT classroom, so I think you'll like it. I
don't want to give you any more clues about it- just that I think you'll
thank me for this one! Let me know what you think - especially if you
use it in class).

Something borrowed

I had some great feedback last week on my reminder to you of Lyrics


Training.com and its offshoot free app LingoClip so I thought I might
remind you of another old friend this week.

Without a doubt, my favourite site for free listening material is Elllo.org.


If you've never visited this site, you're in for a treat, and if you DO know
it, but haven't been there for a while, it's always nice to have a reminder
of something useful, I think.

It's got literally thousands of short, authentic listening texts with a huge
variety of content and accents and most of them come with a transcript
and a vocabulary quiz. You can search by level or topic but there are
also a few curated categories that are useful.

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You could try One minute English which pretty much does what it says
on the tin, or Mixer where six people answer the same question. Why
not get your learners answering the same question afterwards? Maybe
even recording themselves? Have fun with it!

Right, that's it from me for this week. Have a good one and I'll see you
next Sunday.

Best

PS. You can view all my resources for CELTA here and for teachers
here.

PSS. If you know any other teachers who you think might like this
newsletter, feel free to forward it to them. If they register on the site here
(it's free), they'll go onto the newsletter mailing list too. Thanks.

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