Video tips

This teaching tip with David Rixon looks more closely at this topic and offers practical advice on how best to manage classes of young learning students.

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Our latest tip looks at several of the important issues surrounding testing and assessment. Listen to Clare and Alister discuss their ideas and opinions about how best to assess learners of English. After watching the video, why not give your opinion in the comments box below, or write a blogpost on the site?

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Our latest tip looks at ‘Critical thinking’. Watch Alister using the map of the world with his young learner class to encourage greater critical thinking in language learning.

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Do you teach young learners? Do you have to draw cats, dogs or birds on the board? 

Do you teach young learners? Do you often have to draw animals on the board? In this video, Paul Millard from the British Council in Vietnam provides drawing tips to help you improve your artistic skills!

Do you use songs in your lessons? How? Watch how Seema uses them and then share your ideas below!

If you have a computer and a projector in your classroom, PowerPoint can be a very useful addition to your teaching toolkit.

How do you use flashcards in your class? Watch Vikki, and then let us know how you use them by leaving a comment below.

Teachers often disagree on whether or not to use the phonemic chart in their lessons. Watch Peter and Clare argue for and against, then why not tell us what you think.