Writing methodology - news reports

Using a worked example, join us as we review a quick-and-easy structure and approach for producing a news report (as distinct from an "article").

Writing methodology - Advanced Editing & Proofreading Practice & Feedback

If you enjoyed our introductory / middle school / B1 - B2 session on editing and profreading, you'll love this Advanced session. This easily replicable model is ready-to-use, plug-and-play, student-centred and at the same time, a great personal challenge for teachers.

Writing methodology - student editing

One of the most effective tools in teaching writing, or in developing as a writer, is for writers to be able to proofread and to edit their own production. This plug-and-play lesson reviews two short texts and a simple student-centred teacher-friendly editing task.

Planning a Novel Study

If you have not taught a Literature or a Lang & Lit novel study before, or if you want to know how to incorporate a novel unit into your programme, this one-hour overview will get you started on the right path.

Creating a student-centred teacher-friendly lesson using an online video

Students today are increasingly more visual and image-oriented than even those of yesterday, let alone of yester-year. Video-based lessons are appealing to students and advantageous to teachers, and with a little time, thought and attention can provide significant learning and language-practice opportunities.  

Philosophy & Practice : the English of Upper Primary / Lower Secondary / Middle School mathematics

It's probably a few years since you did Upper Primary / Lower Secondary / Middle School (second cycle) mathematics, but the experience for your students will be more recent. Take advantage of this enthusiasm and make your maths colleagues your friends by reviewing the English of Middle School Mathematics.

Plug-and-Play Reading Comprehension / Literature lesson : Essay "Professions for Women" by Virginia Woolf

Our four-part series on this work by one of the most important and influential feminist literary voices. This text is suitable for Cambridge and IB Language, Literature and Lang&Lit programmes. 

Plug-and-Play Reading Comprehension / Literature lesson : Essay "My Periodic Table" by Oliver Sacks

Our four-part series on this moving reflective essay for students, teachers and those interested in literature, and with a passing knowledge of Chemistry. This deeply-poignant. personal and humorous text by one of our most significant contemporary authors was written on the eve of his death; you may know him from The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat.

Cambridge E2L (aka "ESL") Reading Comprehension

 

From our series of Cambridge English as a Second Language (E2L or ESL) Practice and Feedback programmes for teachers and students, this session reviews three reading comprehension exercises.  Suitable for E2L students in a bilingual programme, and Advanced EFL students.

Cambridge E2L (aka "ESL") Note-taking

 

From our series of Cambridge English as a Second Language (E2L or ESL) Practice and Feedback programmes for teachers and students, this session reviews three note-taking exercises.  Suitable for E2L students in a bilingual programme, and Advanced EFL students.

The three pillars of a Media Studies programme

Media Studies can be a distinct programme, a unit within a programme or interwoven throughout a programme. However you include it, our students need to develop media literacy and sophistication for their individual benefit and for that of society as a whole.

Cambridge E2L (aka "ESL") Summaries

From our series of Cambridge English as a Second Language (E2L or ESL) Practice and Feedback programmes for teachers and students, this session covers the characteristics of and then writing and reviewing summaries. 

Plug-and-Play Reading Comprehension / Literature lesson : Essay "Fire at Christmas" by Dylan Thomas

Although technically an extract from a longer work, this piece stands on its own and presents what we expect of a reflective essay and as such, is significant as a literary piece.

The text comes from a Cambridge English Literature programme, and is also appropriate for IB Language, Literature and Lang&Lit. 

The English of discussing graphs

 

A big part of Middle School Maths is data handling, and a big part of that is data presentation in the form of graphs and charts. This leads to discussing and/or analysing data, which then reappears in Humanities, Sciences and even Physical Education. So let's take advantage of that in our English classes.

Meanwhile, we are not preparing our students for life if they cannot see through a politician's or advertiser's use (or misuse) of graphical presentations.

Glaciers - four reading and discussion activities for Middle School (G5 - 8) and High School (G9 - 12)

 

Glaciers will come up in class, perhaps in connection with geography or tourism or climate change or recent events in the news. Take advantage of this interest or topicality to prompt reading, discussion and writing activities.

Ready-to-use lesson as a part of a Sustainable or Renewable Energy unit

Join us as we review this single or double-period lesson plan from go to whoa, providing participants with source material, student activities and teacher notes. The easy-to-follow model will give you a plug-and-play lesson for a green energy unit.

Writing methodology : Reports

Report writing has been identified as the most important skill for engineers, and a highly important skill in many other fields. Reports are also linked to writing summaries, a regular exercise in Language assessments, including EFL, E2L and E1L. This one-hour single-topic session begins with what may be a new activity for many, providing excellent practice for learners and an excellent model which can be duplicated for teachers. 

Creating a student-centred teacher-friendly lesson with an online video

Online videos provide immediate, relevant and up-to-date content while offering teachers exciting, engaging and useful source material for language and media/media literacy lessons.

Introduction to Cambridge English certification for Primary and Secondary students

This overview is ideal for teachers new to Cambridge English certification for school students or in their first two years of preparing students for these examinations.

Cambridge Young Learners English (YLE) for Primary students : Starters, Movers, Flyers

Cambridge English for Schools (EfS) for Secondary students : Key (was KET), Preliminary (was PET) and First (was FCE) 

B2 Reading Short Texts - ready-to-use lessons

This session comes from our Reading Philosophy & Practice series for use with B2-level students, at High School and above, based on the view that wide-ranging, short texts read frequently are key to developing curiosity, reading and thus language prowess.