
YLE Prep: Listening
Here a four things teachers can practice with their students to prepare them for the Listening sections of the Cambridge English: Young Learners Exams.
Here a four things teachers can practice with their students to prepare them for the Listening sections of the Cambridge English: Young Learners Exams.
Many non-native learners have difficulty pronouncing the <th> sounds because they aren’t present in most other languages. Here are some ways you can address pronunciation at beginner stages.
You can prepare for fill-in-the-blank sections of exams like the Cambridge Assessment: Young Learners English tests by combining the two techniques of recalling small, common words and writing down answers before looking at answer choices.
When practicing a grammar structure with my class, I often use dice to randomize prompts. This way, students don’t know what they’re supposed to say or write until I tell them the results of a roll, which keeps them on their toes.
There are lots of long, strange-sounding, technical terms that we don’t use outside the classroom, so why confuse students by teaching them? Instead, make up your own terms for for those concepts.
There’s a lot of vocabulary to learn, but thankfully plenty of words are related to each other. Learning words by associating them with each other helps us to remember those words later. You can help students establish and strengthen those connections in your students’ minds.
Certain letter combinations create unique sounds, and it’s important for learners to recognize this from the beginning. Perhaps we should teach 30 entries of the alphabet instead.
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