HeyJaredSix Things - A miscellany of ELT
This substack is a reprise of a blog about English Language Teaching that I did between 2008 and 2011. I will be reposting and updating many of my lists from the original blog, but also adding new ones.
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Six Ways to Deal with Disruption (opens the original)
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The first book for teachers I wrote is almost twenty years old. It was called Dealing with Difficulties, and I was lucky enough to have the late great Luke Prodromou as a co-author. We had both experienced difficult classes and wanted to write about them. There had also been another book that had influenced me in this project, it was not an activity book and was more for general education than ELT but it had a wonderful title. It was called Getting the Buggers to Behave. Anyway, both books provi
Six Ways to Use a Deck of Cards (opens the original)
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Six Metaphors that Help Explain English Idioms (opens the original)
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Six Favourite Jill Hadfield Activities (opens the original)
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Six Unusual Things that Happen Only in Online Classes (opens the original)
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