Webinar — Moving Online by English Australia This webinar covers some of the basic choices that teachers may have to make with moving classes online. The session covers asynchronous and synchronous modes of online teaching, some of the most popular tools currently being used, e.g., Zoom, Google Classroom, routines for […]
Resources
Websites with free access during COVID-19
The following is a list of websites offering free access to teaching and learning resources during the COVID-19 outbreak. Quizlet — Using Quizlet’s free study sets, study modes and in-class game, you can instantly create a more engaged classroom. News-O-Matic — News-O-Matic is the first daily newspaper just for kids. It provides […]
Picture discussion
This can be used as a speaking activity with lower level classes. With any class it can be a quick filler or warm-up activity. I cut photos from the newspaper, the human interest ones, not political, because newspaper photos are often striking, clever, funny etc. Within a couple of weeks […]
Two quick speaking and reading activities
Buttons for stimulating speech I collect old buttons. Here’s a lesson I did using my buttons. Students selected one (and many of them are fascinating.) They had to draw and describe the garment it came from say who was wearing it where that person was how they came to lose […]
Simon Crosby: The Road Less Travelled
The Road Less Travelled Presentation by Simon Crosby The presentation is about Simon’s doctoral research into translanguaging told through the eyes of a Syrian refugee and her language learning experience in Aotearoa. Watch Simon’s presentation.
EAP Symposium 2019 presentations
Available now to TESOLANZ members are the presentations and video recordings from the 2019 symposium Building the knowledge base: Connecting research to practice in assessment & EAP, which was held at Wintec, Hamilton on 13 July 2019. Current TESOLANZ members can log in and access the presentations in the Members’ […]