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Team teaching

Team teaching is when two or more teachers plan to teach a class together for some reason, for a lesson, or more than a lesson.

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Tense

A tense of a verb is a past or present form.

A teacher in Spain talking at the front of the class

Test teach test

Test, teach, test (TTT) is an approach to teaching where learners first complete a task or activity without help from the teacher.

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Thinking frames

Mario Rinvolucri uses the term ‘thinking frames' to describe useful ways of thinking about what he does in the classroom.

Teacher in Dubai standing in front of whiteboard

Time lines

Time lines are diagrams used to represent the relationship between a verb tense and time.

Two Chinese students speaking together

Tone

Tone refers to the pitch changes made to affect the meaning of words and phrases.

Top down

Top-down processing of language happens when someone uses background information to predict the meaning of language they are going to listen to or read.

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Topic sentence

The topic sentence is a sentence in a paragraph which shows what the paragraph is about and works as a summary of it.

Young learners responding to a question with gestures

TPR

TPR means Total Physical Response.

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