Connected Speech

Slides from the connected speech training session (Mike Riley)

Pronunciation - Underhill video part 1

Here is the first part of a presentation by Adrian Underhill on teaching pronunciation. This comes from the MacmillanELT YouTube page.

Pronunciation - Underhill video part 2

Part 2 of Adrian Underhill's presentation.

Pronunciation - Underhill part 3

More from Adrian Underhill (Macmillan YouTube page)

Pronunciation - Underhill video part 4

Here's Adrian Underhill talking about pronunciation.

Business Result Training DVD (OUP)

The OUP 'Result' teachers' books come with some teacher training DVDs (plus worksheets). These could be used by new teachers or during training sessions.

The videos are closely linked to the Result series and contain clips from lessons using the books. Managed well, the DVDs could be used to create further discussion and may be an interesting addition to training sessions. For example, the English Result Pre-Intermediate DVD shows clips from a whole unit and highlights different stages of a lesson, such as giving instructions, concept checking, explaining grammar, setting up activities, etc.

Business Result - Upper-intermediate - DVD

• Presentations
• One-to-One teaching
• Using case studies

Business Result - Intermediate - DVD

• Needs Analysis
• Vocabulary
• Telephoning

Business Result - Online worksheets

English Result - Pre-Intermediate - DVD

• Author's introduction
• Classroom footage - Unit 4B - warmer, concept check, listening strategies, setting up a game, a game, Can do
• Teacher feedback regarding English Result format
  

English Result - Online worksheets

CAE Result - DVD

• Overview and examples of CAE Paper 5 Speaking
• Assessment criteria
• Tips on giving a good performance
• A complete test
• Complete test assessment
  

Time Managment

Watch Randy Pausch's lecture on Time Management via iTunesU or via his website:

Randy Pausch

iTunes University

iTunesU, Apple's on-line University, is a wonderful resource. An increasing number of universities allow their lectures to be downloaded for free via iTunes. Here are a few selected lecture series about education. You will need iTunes to access them:

Swinburne University of Technology: Learning and Teaching

UMBC: Teaching and Learning

Vanderbilt University: Center for Teaching

UMBC: Child Development Psychology

Discipline

Here are three articles on dealing with discord by Rose Senior from the ETP magazine.

Article 1

Article 2

Article 3

Russell Stannard Website

This is one of the most useful websites I have found. You can watch a series of videos in which Russell teaches you how to make the most out of technology (downloading podcasts, creating blogs, using wikis, etc.) He also has some videos about his favourite ELT sites.

Have a look - Teacher Training Videos by Russell Stannard

Teaching Teens

Trouble with teens?

Have a look at these articles on the BBC'S Teaching English website:

Project work with Teens

Teen angst

Motivating Teens

The Lexical Approach

Do you want to learn more about The Lexical Approach? Why not have a look at these two articles on the BBC's Teaching English website?

Part One

Part Two

Teaching Children

The following articles from the BBC Teaching English website look at children as learners.

Part One

Part Two

There are other articles dealing with

• children who have additional education needs

• managing young learners

• Storytelling
  

The Internet

You can listen to two podcasts on using the Internet in the classroom on the BBC Teaching English Website.

Using Dictionaries

The BBC Teaching English website has a podcast about using dictionaries. Click on the link below and choose 'Reference Revolution' from the menu.

BBC Teaching English

Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL)

The BBC Teaching English website contains some podcasts explaining the basics of Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL).

BBC Teaching English

There is also an article offering a framework for using CLIL in the classroom.