Labelled images can be a great way to teach new vocabulary to your students.
Can you think of any other parts you would add?
#PearsonEnglish
#Vocabulary
Help your students improve their English in January with our 30 Day Learn English Challenge.
Day 1 is easy! Download an app and play a game in English.
Share this image with your students so they can cross them off as you go.
Happy New Year!!
#PearsonEnglish30DayChallenge
Did you know that the first bicycle was invented in 1817?
Let’s show our appreciation for this incredible invention and teach your students some vocabulary related to bikes! 🚲
#WorldBicycleDay
#PTE
#VocabularyBuilding
Tongue twisters are a great way to help your students improve their pronunciation – try getting them to say this three times as fast as possible!
Do you know any tongue twisters in your language?
#TongueTwister
#EnglishFluency
#PronunciationPractice
Do your students know that the way we write/say the date is different in British and American English?
🇬🇧 In BrE we always put the number or ordinal number before the month.
🇺🇸In AmE the month comes first.
Do you teach the British or American version in your class?
Modal verbs can be tricky for students. They can show possibility, intent, ability or necessity and often get mixed up.
Here are some of the most common modal verbs and when they are used.
How could you turn this into a classroom activity?
#ModalVerbs
#EnglishTeacher
A huge congratulations to the Pearson and BBC English Live Classes team for winning the
#ELTons
award for Innovation in Learner Resources!
Well done to everyone involved!! 🎉🥳
When writing an essay, it’s important to have a bank of useful language to help connect ideas.
Here are some expressions to use for introducing, presenting arguments and concluding.
What have we missed?
#WriteInEnglish
#EnglishEssay
Thank you to everyone who entered the Teacher Award! We're busy watching over 400 video entries from you. Winners will be announced January 30th!
#PEGTA2020
Here are some tips to help your students succeed in the Retell lecture task in PTE.
How do you help your students prepare for this task? Share your advice in the comments!
#ITeachPTE
#PTETeacher
Are you snowed under with anything at the moment?
There are lots of different ways of saying ‘I’m busy’ in English.
Which ones do you teach your students?
#OtherWaysToSay
#TeachEnglish
Looking for some new materials to use in the classroom? Choose from a wide range of topics and access free classroom activities, worksheets and lesson plans to keep your students engaged.
#TeachEnglish
#ELT
Keep learning and keep teaching with Pearson English Spring Days - an inspiring event designed to provide you with fresh ideas for now and the future.
Choose from over 40 sessions delivered by leading ELT experts.
Register now!
#PearsonSpringDays
EXCITING ANNOUNCEMENT 📢
Later this year we are introducing a new general English test, PTE Essential. Ideal for people who wish to work, migrate, or seek permanent residency in Canada, recognized by the Canadian Government (
@CitImmCanada
). Read more:
Are you preparing your students for the future? Academic reading skills are necessary for those who go on to study English at university. Here are 7 reading strategies to better prepare your learners:
We want to hear your thoughts about challenges you face in relation to teaching English.
Your input will enable us to focus our efforts on improving your teaching experiences in the future.
Please complete this anonymous, 2-minute survey:
Thank you to our authors and ELT experts who presented at IATEFL. We thoroughly enjoyed learning from everyone, and hope all who attended did too. You can catch up with some of their key insights with
#PearsonLive
Do you teach learners with Dyslexia? If so, check out our podcast episode with SEN expert Martin Bloomfield. Discover his top tips for making your classroom more inclusive.
#ELT
#ELTPodcast
#Dyslexia
Keep teaching and keep learning with our free resources.
Discover blogs, webinars, online courses and other advice to help you during this challenging time.
#KeepTeaching
#KeepLearning
Listening to podcasts is an excellent way to learn new things and stay entertained while planning lessons, tidying your apartment or working out.
Check out the ones we think English teachers will love! 🎧
#ELT
#ELTpodcast
Today is the day - the Pearson English Global Teacher Award is now open for entries!
Will you be one of the 2020 winners and have the chance to win a trip to either IATEFL or TESOL? Enter today!
#pegta2020
Do you know how to tell the time in English?
Say the hour first and then the minutes (hour + minutes) e.g. It’s three thirty-five.
Say the minutes past/to the hour and then the hour (minutes + PAST/TO* + hour) e.g. It’s twenty-five to four.
What’s the time where you are?
Only 4 weeks left to enter the 2019 Teacher Award competition! Need some inspiration? Hear why our winners loved attending IATEFL with us
#ELT
#PEGTA2019
Do you know an inspiring colleague who deserves to be recognized? Tell them to enter the Pearson English Teacher Award and they could win a trip to IATEFL or TESOL in 2019!
#EFL
#PEGTA2019
When teaching essay writing, it’s important to show students how to weigh up the advantages or disadvantages of a topic.
Here are some expressions they can use. What else would you add?
#PearsonEnglish
#PTEAcademic
#EssayWriting
English expert and cognitive scientist Katherine McEldoon shares top tips for "keeping the mind in mind" on your English language learning journey.
Put these into practice and train your brain to make language learning easier.
#EnglishTips
#EnglishUnfiltered
You might be surprised to learn that these three English words were borrowed from German! 🇩🇪
Can you think of any other English words that come from other languages?
#EnglishWords
#Vocab
Authentic materials can empower your learners and help them to achieve their goals. How do you use authenticity to empower your learners?
#DareToLearnDareToChange
Keep learning and keep teaching with Pearson English Spring Days - an inspiring event designed to provide you with fresh ideas for now and the future.
Choose from over 40 sessions delivered by leading ELT experts.
Register now!
#PearsonSpringDays
How do you explain the differences between past simple and past continuous with your students?
Here’s a handy guide you can share with them, if they get stuck.
#PearsonEnglish
#LearnEnglish
#GrammarTips
What’s your favorite sea creature? 🦀 🐙
Tomorrow is World Ocean Day and to celebrate here are some common animals you might find in the deep blue.
#WorldOceanDay
#SeaCreatures
Teachers all around the world are suddenly finding they have to teach online for the first time, so we wanted to share some tips to help the transition go as smoothly as possible.
Do you have any other top advice for teaching English online?
It’s World Poetry Day! Here is one of the most well known poems in the English language.
The original third line is “Honey is sweet” 🍯 but today, your challenge is to come up with your own third line!
Share your answer in the comments!
#WorldPoetryDay
Are you still teaching online and need some fresh ideas to keep your students engaged?
Explore our distance learning resource page and discover support for teachers, learners and parents.
#KeepTeaching
#KeepLearning
Sound on!
Do your students have a tough time learning English? We’re not surprised!
These words all contain the letters ‘ough’, but the words don’t sound the same.
Play the audio in this video, then get your students to repeat each one.
#EnglishLanguage
#SpeakEnglish
A good way to help your students expand their vocabulary is by creating word diagrams.
Take common word like pollution. Show the different transformations of this word (e.g. a verb, noun, adjective etc) and write example sentences.
What are your tips for building vocabulary?
Have you decided on your New Year's Resolution yet? Make it entering the Pearson English Teacher Award competition! There's 1 week left to enter.
Competition closes 4th January 2019.
#ELT
#PearsonEnglishTeacherAward2019
Happy World Teacher's Day everyone! 👩🏫👨💻
To celebrate we've brought together a range of resources to support you - whether you are teaching in-person, online or a mix of the two.
Discover articles, videos, webinars and more!
#WorldTeachersDay
#ELT
How do you use storytelling in the classroom? Storytelling can help English learners develop their language skills and foster a love of reading. Here are 5 ways to use it in your classroom:
Assessment for Learning (AfL) can be used as a method for teaching, as well as a way to track student progress. Mario Herrera discusses 4 ways you can use AfL in the classroom:
@MarioELT
Authentic listening materials are cruial for understanding language in 'real-life' situations. Here are three activities for using authentic materials in the classroom:
Here is a diagram to help your students build their English vocabulary. This month, we’ve focused on birds!
What is your favorite bird? 🐤
#PTE
#EnglishVocabulary
.
#Birds
Keep learning and keep teaching with Pearson English Spring Days - an inspiring event designed to provide you with fresh ideas for now and the future.
Choose from over 40 sessions delivered by leading ELT experts.
Register now!
#PearsonSpringDays
Yesterday you chose scanning for detail as your preferred strategy in a guided reading lesson! Today we want to share a guided reading lesson that uses scanning for detail which you can apply to the primary classroom:
Doctor Who Readers will take your students on many adventures through time and space. Here are four activities for using Doctor Who Readers in the classroom:
Are you a teacher looking for an all-in-one test preparation solution? Stay tuned for the Global Online Test Preparation Platform, a new digital tool to help prepare for PTE Academic, IELTS, TOEFL iBT and OET powered by our partner, E2Language.
Join our Assessment for Learning free online programme.
Our expert, Amanda Davies, will be sharing some of her ideas on peer learning to help you integrate this concept as your everyday classroom routine.
The names of different signs and symbols can be hard to learn in another language.
Check out our mini-guide and make sure you and your students know all this
#vocabulary
related to
#punctuation
.
Is there any that you would add?
#ELT
#EnglishGrammar
#LearnEnglish
If you enjoyed our Spring Days webinars, you're going to love our Assessment Summer Sessions!
Starting on Tuesday 30th June we'll be hosting weekly webinars exploring the hottest topics in assessment.
Register now!
#Assessment
#PearsonSummerSessions
A new series of webinars are available for English teachers, looking at mediation, employability and more.
Find out more about the topics, trainers and register:
Descriptive language can be extremely useful, especially if you are preparing for an English exam like
#PTEAcademic
.
Here are some verbs to help you describe trends in a graph.
Look at the second image and practice using the vocabulary in the comments!
#PTESpeaking
Discover our updated distance learning page, full of new resources for educators, learners and parents. We want to help you keep teaching and keep learning!
#KeepTeaching
#KeepLearning
Find out how we are working hard to make our materials more inclusive and diverse with a new set of guidelines for editors and authors.
#Diversity
#Inclusion
#ELT
Do your primary students need support with their reading? Here's a free reading checklist to help guide them through pre-reading to post-reading activities.
Download, print and display the checklist in class:
We couldn’t agree more with this quote.
How do you encourage your students to learn outside the classroom?
Let us know in the comments!
#TeacherQuotes
#ThoughtfulFriday