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Teaching with minimal resources can seem a daunting prospect for those of us lucky enough to work with coursebooks, photocopiers, audio and IT facilities in our schools. Karen Waterston recently returned from Mongolia, where she ran an in-service teacher training course. Here she writes about how she adapted to her new working environment.

There are many activities which you can use with your learners to exploit songs in the classroom. They can be used with specific teaching points in mind or just for fun to motivate children.

How would your Christmas feel without a Christmas tree or your birthday without a cake? How romantic would your romantic dinner be without candles?

Shakespeare is without a doubt the most famous British poet and playwright that has ever lived. However, his work is often avoided by EFL teachers as they deem it too complex for their students.

Using arts and crafts in the classroom can be an excellent way to facilitate language learning with young learners. 

Pictures are all around us everyday, in the street, at work, at home and even in our leisure time, so why not in the classroom as well?

In this article I would like to highlight the value of using story books in a Young Learner classroom. I will look at its strengths and benefits in terms of language acquisition as well as promoting socio-cultural understanding.

One of the enormous benefits of the Internet has been the accessibility of loads and loads of English texts for teachers to use with their learners.

According to David Vale and Anne Feunteun in 'Teaching children English: A training course for teachers of English to children', kids start developing their identity as readers and listeners from the age of three or four years old, because they start constructing their world of meaning and imagination when they are first exposed to different stories of life.