Breaking Bad Teaching Habits
Level: All Levels
Category: Teaching Techniques
This video shows three negative teaching habits: talking to the board, echoing student comments, and interrupting students to supply answers. The teacher demonstrates alternative behaviors to help you change these ineffective approaches.

Follow-Up Activities for Reading Lessons
Level: Intermediate or Advanced
Category: Reading
After reading, students summarize the main points of a story. Next, they write alternate endings for the story. Finally, they share their ideas. In this way, reading is integrated with the other language skills.

Grab the Word: A Game for Teaching Vocabulary
Level: Beginners
Category: Vocabulary
At times, beginning language students need non-verbal ways to indicate their comprehension. In this video, students show they understand time expressions by taking the clock face which matches the oral instruction.

Product Writing: How to Write a Business Letter
Level: Intermediate or Advanced
Category: Writing
Students study models of complaint letters to businesses. The form and style are explored through analysis of several similar letters. Finally, students write their own letters closely following the models.

Task-Based Learning: Creating a Utopian Society
Level: Intermediate or Advanced
Category: Speaking
When students work on tasks in pairs or small groups, they use language at every step: planning, executing, and presenting. This demonstration shows students planning and describing their own utopian societies.

Teaching Grammar with Board Races
Level: Beginners or Intermediate
Category: Games & Activities
When your class needs a change of pace, you can practice basic language points in unusual ways. A board race, as demonstrated here, will re-energize your class. In this game students must categorize the two forms of comparative adjectives.

Teaching Listening: Gist and Detail
Level: Intermediate or Advanced
Category: Listening
Listening skills are not passive! This teacher uses a sentence scramble and a true or false worksheet to encourage active listening of a teacher-made recording. In these ways, both the main ideas and supporting details are elicited.

Teaching Sentence Stress with Jazz Chants
Level: Beginners or Intermediate
Category: Pronunciation
Students use rhythmic chants to notice and produce correct stresses in sentences. Through clapping and speaking, the class learns the patterns in a fun, low-pressure way. Later, they can transfer these skills to conversation.

Teaching Tag Questions
Level: Beginners or Intermediate
Category: Grammar
Students create tag questions by matching statements with their appropriate tags. Manipulating the sentence strips helps them to see the verbs forms which are needed in each part and how they correspond with each other.

Teaching Vocabulary with Gradable Opposites
Level: All Levels
Category: Vocabulary
This video shows how effectively a simple diagram can communicate meaning. The relationship between words describing temperature is demonstrated by placing them on a scale. This technique visually defines word meaning for EFL students.

Games & Activities Using Physical Movement in the Classroom Tags:imperative, mime, kinesthetic, TPR

Grammar A Mingle for the Present Perfect Tags:present perfect, mingle, survey, grammar, speaking

Teaching Techniques Roles of the Effective Teacher Tags:vocabulary, role, animal, game, bingo

Teaching Techniques How to Deal with Disruptive Students Tags:cell phones, interruption, management, discipline

Grammar Teaching the Present Perfect: Negative Statements Tags:present perfect, grammar, context, dialog

Listening Teaching Listening: Gist and Detail Tags:listening, sequence, gist, detail, scramble, main

Other Stuff The TEFL LIfe, Shaghai, China Tags:job, work, placement, China, employment

Listening Teaching with Song Tags:sing, listening, pronunciation, creative, music, song

Games & Activities Teaching Grammar with Board Races Tags:game, grammar, race, adjective, kinesthetic, comparative

Teaching Techniques Tips for Remembering Students' Names Tags:teaching tips,names,management

Category: Games & Activities

Using Physical Movement in the Classroom Level: Beginners

Teaching the Imperative with Classroom Objects Level: Beginners

Teaching Grammar with Board Races Level: Beginners or Intermediate

Practicing Word Recognition with a Word Search Level: Intermediate or Advanced

A First Day Ice Breaker Level: All Levels

Teaching Superlatives with a Board Game Level: Beginners or Intermediate

Mingles and Role Plays Level: All Levels

Activities: Games Level: All Levels

Vocabulary Taboo Level: Intermediate or Advanced

Using Crossword Puzzles Level: Intermediate or Advanced

Category: Grammar

A Mingle for the Present Perfect Level: All Levels

Teaching the Present Perfect: Negative Statements Level: Beginners or Intermediate

Teaching Duration Expressions Level: Beginners or Intermediate

Drilling Grammar with Tic-Tac-Toe Level: Beginners or Intermediate

Teaching Verb Tenses with Timelines Level: All Levels

Practicing Word Order with a Sentence Scramble Level: Beginners or Intermediate

Making Promises in the First Conditional Level: Intermediate or Advanced

Drilling Grammar with Dominoes Level: Beginners or Intermediate

Drilling the Past Continuous with Flash Cards Level: Beginners or Intermediate

Eliciting the Second Conditional Level: Intermediate or Advanced

Teaching Tag Questions Level: Beginners or Intermediate

Teaching Grammar in Context Level: All Levels

How to Explain Participial Adjectives Level: Beginners or Intermediate

Category: Listening

Teaching Listening: Gist and Detail Level: Intermediate or Advanced

Teaching with Song Level: Intermediate or Advanced

Listening Skills Level: Intermediate or Advanced

Category: Live

Category: Other Stuff

The TEFL LIfe, Shaghai, China Level: All Levels

English Opens Doors: Patagonia, Chile Level: All Levels

Category: Professional Development

Preparing for an Employment Search Level: All Levels

Category: Pronunciation

Using Poems to Teach Sentence Stress Level: All Levels

Practicing Vowel to Vowel Linking Level: All Levels

Teaching Sentence Stress with Jazz Chants Level: Beginners or Intermediate

Teaching Pronunciation: Word Stress Level: Intermediate or Advanced

Teaching Word Stress with a Stress Maze Level: Intermediate or Advanced

Connected Speech Level: Intermediate or Advanced

Teaching Pronunciation: Minimal Pairs Level: All Levels

Category: Reading

Using a Cloze Test to Assess Reading Level Level: Intermediate or Advanced

Follow-Up Activities for Reading Lessons Level: Intermediate or Advanced

Pre-Teaching Strategies for Newspaper Articles Level: Intermediate or Advanced

Designing Tasks for Computer Assisted Learning Level: Intermediate or Advanced

Organizing Ideas with Diagrams Level: Intermediate or Advanced

Using Visual Images to Pre-Teach Vocabulary Level: All Levels

Using Authentic Materials for a Reading Lesson Level: Intermediate or Advanced

Reading Skills Level: Intermediate or Advanced

Category: Speaking

Teaching Feeling and Emotion Level: Beginners or Intermediate

Expressing Obligation with an Info Gap Level: Beginners or Intermediate

Making Presentations with Posters Level: All Levels

Using Video for Conversation Level: Intermediate or Advanced

Convince Me: A Speaking Activity Level: Intermediate or Advanced

A Mingle for Likes and Dislikes Level: Beginners

Practicing Speaking with Interviews Level: Intermediate or Advanced

Task-Based Learning: Creating a Utopian Society Level: Intermediate or Advanced

Teaching with Mingles: Giving Advice Level: All Levels

Information Gap Activity: Describing and Drawing Pictures Level: All Levels

Conversation Skills: Forecasting the Weather Level: Beginners or Intermediate

Teaching Speaking with a Psychological Survey Level: Intermediate or Advanced

Line-Up for Fluency Level: Intermediate or Advanced

Cultural Issues in the EFL Classroom Level: Intermediate or Advanced

Assessment Techniques Level: Advanced

Role Play: Ordering in a Restaurant Level: Beginners or Intermediate

Teaching Function: Taking or Leaving Messages Level: Intermediate or Advanced

Culture in the Classroom: A Halloween Lesson Level: All Levels

Using Cartoons or Comics in the Classroom Level: Beginners or Intermediate

Information Gap Activities Level: All Levels

Teaching Function: Finding an Apartment Level: Beginners or Intermediate

Language Systems: Function Level: All Levels

Category: Teaching Techniques

How to Deal with Disruptive Students Level: All Levels

Tips for Remembering Students' Names Level: All Levels

Assessing Reading through Individual Retelling Level: All Levels

Effective Error Correction Techniques Level: All Levels

Do's and Dont's for Giving Instructions Level: All Levels

Breaking Bad Teaching Habits Level: All Levels

Tips for Identifying Lesson Aims Level: All Levels