Sharn, Author at Tailor-Made Teaching

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Root Words and Meaning A – Z

in EAP - English for Academic Purposes, ESP - English for Specific Purposes, Learner Autonomy, Vocabulary acquisition, Word creation

List of blog posts on root words from Latin and Greek and their meanings.

CPD: How to Teach IELTS

in CPD - Continuing Professional Development, IELTS exam

I’ve been teaching IELTS for years but feel that a lot of my material has grown stale. Also I’m increasingly asked to take on IELTS students of lower levels, but most of my current materials cater to those aiming for a 6.5 and above.

Vocabulary Profiling 2

in Cambridge Exams, EAP - English for Academic Purposes, ESP - English for Specific Purposes, IELTS exam, Vocabulary acquisition, Writing

Have a look at ‘Vocabulary Profiling 1‘ for reasons to profile vocabulary. LexTutor is a little less user-friendly than VocabKitchen (you may not want students to try it themselves) but offers some additional features.

Vocabulary Profiling 1

in Cambridge Exams, EAP - English for Academic Purposes, ESP - English for Specific Purposes, IELTS exam, Reading, Vocabulary acquisition, Writing

How do you decide on the vocabulary to teach students? Which vocabulary in a given text would you want students to learn and which items could you just gloss?

English Accents

in Listening

Blog posts and examples of English Accents can be found here: English Accents and Dialects: Introduction English Accents Around the World English Accents Around the UK

Learner Autonomy

in Learner Autonomy, Teaching

Organisation Creating a Study Plan Vocabulary Notebooks

Useful Online Resources

in CPD - Continuing Professional Development, Teaching

This is a (slowly growing) list of useful online resources for teachers & students, in no particular order. If you have any favourite sites, please let me know.

IELTS

in IELTS exam

Free Practice Tests online How to Prepare for IELTS directed at students IELTS Marking Criteria directed at students

Songs for Learning Vocabulary: Topics A to Z

in Listening, Poetry, Teaching, Vocabulary acquisition

A to Z of Song Topics As I’ve spent the last month or so listing songs for learning English grammar, it seems to make sense to finish with a list of songs for topics to introduce or revise vocabulary. This list will grow as I remember/discover more, or people get in touch with suggestions.

Songs for Learning English Grammar

in English Grammar, Listening, Pronunciation, Spoken Fluency, Teaching

I’m keen on the idea of songs helping students internalise, through repetition, the rhythm, sentence stress and grammatical structures or English. I don’t have much opportunity to use songs in most of my classes (mostly business, academic and exam classes at the moment) but am interested in the idea of encouraging students to use songs […]