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Understanding Teenagers in the ELT Classroom

Cover of the book - Teaching English Understanding Teenagers

Understanding Teenagers in the ELT Classroom is a practical handbook full of lesson ideas, exercises and tips for teaching English to teenage students.

This practical book (shortlisted for the ELTons) goes much further than simply telling you what to do and how to do it. It also looks at the why. It explains the deeper rationale for decisions we might make, as well as exploring the underlying principles and factors that can make or break a lesson.

Have you sat at home thinking over why one of your classes is not going the way that you want? Or perhaps you’ve seen a really good teaching idea at a conference and are wondering how to make it work in your own class? Understanding Teenagers in the ELT Classroom provides reflections and ideas to help you.

Each chapter follows the same pattern:

Each begins with a Discussion of a certain facet of teaching teens. Chris Roland identifies key issues and outlines situations he has experienced in his own teaching. He also draws upon writers and trainers who have played a role in his own development.
In the second part of each chapter, Practical applications, the discussion takes a more hands-on turn. Here, Chris Roland outlines some classroom applications and techniques which you can use in the classroom.
Each chapter ends with three summary sections. The Questions for reflection box helps summarise the chapter. The Things to try box suggests ideas for small scale projects, action research or professional development for you to try. Finally, the Things to share box contains prompts to help you exchange ideas.

Understanding Teenagers in the ELT Classroom is part of Pavilion ELT’s Teaching English series. Chris Roland is also the author of two other books for young learners: Structuring Fun for Young Learners in the ELT Classroom and Structuring Fun for Young Language Learners Online.

Examples of resources you get access to with this book:

300 Conversation questions for teens – This resource contains 300 conversation questions suitable for teenage students. The questions are grouped into 20 different topics, with 15 questions on each.

100 questions to ask your students at the door – This resource contains 100 questions, each on its own side of paper, in letters as large as possible. These can be held up as prompts for students to make a sentence each as they enter class.

100 Language stems – This resource contains 100 questions, each on its own side of paper, in letters as large as possible. These can be held up as prompts for students to make a sentence each as they enter class

Reviews:

“The book is packed with personal anecdotes and illuminating transcripts of real teacher-student exchanges. Often inspirational, it is written from the heart. Essential for those who teach teenagers. Highly recommended.” – Pete Sharma, EL Gazette (469), March 2020. You can read the full review here.

“The book not only offers activities, which is always a welcome feature, but it also offers the rationale and underlying principles of the activities. Those who pick up the book and read through it to be inspired are the teachers who care. I believe the book should be a must for every teacher who teaches teenagers.” – Hania Kryszewska, Humanising Language Teaching, December 2021. You can read the full review here.

Self-soothing (2nd Edition)

The new edition of best-selling manual Self-soothing (2nd Edition) provides a range of self-soothing techniques that can be used by children and adults to combat everyday and extraordinary stress. Drawing on theories of attachment, stress and trauma, its potential use has been expanded to include working with a broader range of people, from vulnerable adults and others in mental health and clinical settings to traumatised groups receiving emergency support, from children who have experienced trauma or unstable family lives, to the parents struggling to care for them, and from members of the emergency services, to any workers at risk of experiencing secondary post-traumatic stress disorder.

The manual provides anyone working with vulnerable or traumatised individuals or groups with accessible theoretical information and guidance, exercises that can be used at any time to induce relaxation and avoid the consequences of chronic stress, practice examples and printable exercise sheets.

ETpedia Grammar

ETpedia Grammar equips teachers with 500 ideas and activities for teaching grammar, which can be used in classroom activities that lend themselves to engaging practice with the most common grammar points taught in the English language classroom.

Organised into 50 units each containing 10 ideas, it is easy to dip in and out of. It will save you planning time, provide inspiration, help you motivate students, and anticipate problems students might have with different aspects of grammar. Within the resource, grammar points are ordered in themed sets. These are presented in a sequence loosely based on the order you might expect to teach them on a course.

Every unit in ETpedia Grammar provides you with 10 different ideas and activities. Usually the first couple of ideas in a unit offer ideas for presenting the key points of the grammar. The main part of the unit then provides you with ideas for activities to practise the grammar in a fun, meaningful way.

Each unit also contains:

an activity based on a photocopiable handout (which you will find in the Appendix),
a motivating task for students to do after the lesson on their own,
tips on the difficulties students often have with the grammar point in question.

If you are new to teaching, ETpedia Grammar will be invaluable for supporting you on your way. If you’ve been teaching for a while, this resource might remind you of techniques and activities you haven’t used recently. It will also offer you fresh new ideas to increase your repertoire.

ETpedia Grammar is the eighth title in the popular ETpedia series.

Teaching Grammar: From Rules to Reasons

Cover of the book - Teaching Grammar Rules to Reasons

Teaching Grammar: From Rules to Reasons outlines an alternative approach to teaching grammar in the language classroom. Rather than just considering the standard rules of grammar, it explores what speakers and writers of English actually do with grammar. It then considers how students can be guided to discover what those speakers and writers mean. Enhance your teaching skills with systematic procedures, discovery activities, and practical materials.

This book offers you lesson materials, systematic lesson procedures, and discovery techniques. It also explores replication activities that you can incorporate into a syllabus and use as demonstration lessons.

Teaching Grammar: From Rules to Reasons aims to:

help teachers to develop their knowledge of grammar
provide a source of grammar lessons
instigate new ways of planning and organising lessons.

Reviews:

‘From Rules to Reasons is an invaluable resource for teachers and teacher educators interested in the perennial question of how best to work with grammar in the English language classroom. It engages the reader with a critical perspective on traditional approaches to teaching grammar, and provides an original, ingenious alternative, based on the author’s extensive experience both as a teacher and teacher educator.’
– Jason Anderson, teacher educator, bestselling author and consultant

You can read Jason’s full review here.

‘Danny Norrington-Davies has produced a work that rightfully sits alongside the best of the ‘how to’ volumes on teaching grammar and provides a creative alternative to traditional methods of grammar presentation in the English language classroom.’
– David Curtin, published in English Australia Journal

You can read David’s full review here.

‘This book is a well-written, insightful introduction to the teaching of pedagogical grammar and its strong practical focus will be welcomed by teachers, both novice and experienced.’
– Scott Thornbury, ELT teacher educator and methodology writer

Scott’s full review is available here.

Teaching English One to One (2nd edition)

Cover of the book - One to One - How to teach one to one classes - for the professional English language teacher

Teaching English one-to-one is very different to group classroom lessons. However, armed with the right techniques and approach, it’s possible to overcome the challenges of teaching English one-to-one and for both teacher and student to enjoy their teaching experience. Enhance your skills in teaching English one to one with proven methods, insightful case studies, and practical tools to ensure successful lessons.

“One-to one teaching can encompass the best and the worst aspects of teaching”
– Priscilla Osborne, author of Teaching English One to One

It is common for all teachers to encounter one-to-one teaching at some stage in their career. However, discussion, support and resources for one-to-one teaching are rarer. Teaching English One to One is a handy and practical book to help teachers successfully plan and prepare for that unique teaching situation.

This fully revised and extended edition provides an analysis of the problems associated with teaching students on a one-to-one basis.

Packed with practical examples for you to use and adapt, this book contains comprehensive case studies, examples and forms you can use and adapt accordingly. It also includes tried and tested teaching techniques for managing students and your teaching time.

With whole chapters on different methods of giving feedback and correcting errors; business English; homestay teaching and teaching children and teenagers, this handy guide covers every aspect of teaching one-to-one.

This is part of the Pavilion ELT Teaching English range.

A Practical Introduction to Teacher Training in ELT

A Practical Introduction to Teacher Training in ELT – is an invaluable support tool for teacher trainers, those planning to become a teacher trainer and anyone who does staff training as part of their role. The book will help you understand and shape your teacher training practice.

This is the ideal teacher training companion, covering all aspects of training, both face to face and online:

Find out how to get into teacher training
Discover techniques to use in input sessions
Develop ways to structure sessions
Construct lesson plans
Understand different approaches for observing lessons and giving feedback
Gain insights into planning, managing and co-ordinating training sessions.

“A Practical Introduction to Teacher Training in ELT is a book that all soon-to-be or newly appointed trainers are going to find useful – one of those books you’ll keep at your side. It takes the reader through all of the major aspects of teacher training in just-the-right-amount of detail – not too much, but not too little either. It offers plenty of practical insights, workshops ideas and reflective questions to really get your thinking about how you might successfully get involved with teacher training, deliver top-notch sessions or run teachers through the observation process.” – Jim, SpongeELT.

Read the full review here.

ETpedia Materials Writing

ETpedia Materials Writing is a complete reference guide for writing English materials. It has 500 English Language Ideas supporting aid writers, teachers & students. It provides both new and experienced teachers with 500 tips, advice and ideas. This resource covers everything from basic principles to extensive materials writing.

It follows on from other books in the ETpedia series, which all use a system of units of 10 to make the resource easy-to-use whether you are dipping in for a quick tip or looking for more comprehensive ideas. Each unit will inspire you whether you’re writing your own materials for the first time or if you’re an experienced materials writer looking to further develop your skills.

‘ETpedia Materials Writing…addresses a real need in the ELT industry, offering comprehensive and practical advice for both novice materials writers and the more experienced… The sheer number and variety of ideas will make it a source of inspiration for all materials developers, especially those who have writer’s block or are stretched for time… I would strongly recommend ETpedia Materials Writing for any (and every) ELT staffroom.’ – Meredith MacAuley.

Meredith MacAuley is a teacher and teacher trainer in Australia. You can read her full review, published in English Australia Journal in November 2017, here.

Take a look at the contents here. You can also take a look at ‘10 reasons for using ETpedia Materials Writing‘.

ETpedia Young Learners

Do you teach children aged between 5 and 12? Are you looking for new ideas and activities to use in the classroom? If so, ETpedia Young Learners contains 50 units each with 10 points covering everything you need to know about teaching, managing and engaging young learners. It is full of practical ideas, useful tips and a whole range of activities in the Appendix for you to photocopy and use immediately. You can read it from cover to cover, or dip in to find ideas and tasks whenever you need them. Whether you are a newly qualified teacher, or you just want to reinvigorate your teaching practice, ETpedia Young Learners is here to help you.

Topics include:

Preparation and planning tips on getting to know your students
Discovering how to get the best from young learners
Useful behaviour management secrets and tools
Keeping young learners attention using music, stories and craft activities

You can take a look at a sample chapter of ETpedia Young Learners here. It is part of the ETpedia series, which each provide 500 practical ideas and tips on a particular topic. Other titles in the series include ETpedia Teenagers, ETpedia Exams, ETpedia Vocabulary and ETpedia Management.

ETpedia Teenagers

Whether you’re a new or experienced English language teacher, teenage students can pose unique challenges. ETpedia Teenagers is packed with practical engaging, motivating activities, offering 50 comprehensive units on understanding teenage students in this age group.

Ideal for teachers of all experience levels, it contains 50 units of 10 points each, covering everything you need to know about teaching, managing and engaging teenage learners. They can also be one of the most rewarding groups to teach.

This seventh title in the best-selling ETpedia series draws upon author Edmund Dudley’s own extensive experience teaching English to teenagers. You will also find quotes from other experienced English language teachers, sharing their views, ideas and experience of teenage classes.

Content includes:

Preparation and planning tips for your teenage classes;
Insights into how to deal with some of the issues that teenagers have in the classroom;
Teen-friendly activities and topics to keep motivation levels high;
Activities and ideas to help teenagers develop their language awareness and skills.

You can view a sample chapter from ETpedia Teenagers here.

Each resource in the ETpedia series is full of practical advice and ideas, and divided into units of 10 on each topic with an Appendix full of additional photocopiable materials. Other titles include ETpedia Young Learners, ETpedia Exams and ETpedia Vocabulary.

ETpedia Exams

Cover of the book - ETpidia Exams - 500 ideas for preparing students for EFL exams

Are you are a teacher who has to write tests and exams from time to time? Or perhaps a published writer who needs to include exam practice or tests in your materials? ETpedia Exams reflects the fact that exams are becoming increasingly important. Most teachers will need to prepare students for them at some point in their teaching career.

One of the biggest challenges for teachers of exam classes is balancing exam preparation with the need to keep improving a student’s general level of English. ETpedia Exams provides both new and more experienced teachers with tips, activities and pointers to help. This will help you balance language practice for everyday life with the requirements of exams. It will also help you prepare students for any kind of EFL and ESL exam.

This resource includes a useful set of checklists that you can turn to when you’re in need of a few extra ideas – or looking for a quick alternative way to design a test or write a type of question.

Like every book in the ETpedia series, ETpedia Exams is divided into units of 10 tips, making it easy to dip into as needed, as well as read cover-to-cover. In addition, the Appendix at the end provides photocopiable materials. You can use these materials as they are, or adapt and develop them to suit your own context.