Home > Presentations > Presentations for Teachers of Secondary and Adult Students   1. Using Video in the Classroom Video is a very powerful teaching tool, when used effectively. This presentation introduces a variety of teaching techniques and language acquisition activities using video.   2. Effective Grammar Use: A Guide to Making Meaning Learning grammar forms without meaning or context will never help students to actually use the language. A discourse-based approach teaches grammar through natural contexts, with a focus on meaning. (Grammar Sense, The Good Grammar Book)   3. Mastering Vocabulary and Idiomatic Expressions Collocations, idioms and phrasal verbs are language chunks frequently used in everyday English, and pose one of the most difficult challenges to language learners in gaining fluency. (Can You Believe It?)   4. Listening: The Strategic Approach Using top-down and bottom-up processing and setting tasks for each listening give students strategies for managing and improving their listening ability. (Tactics for Listening)   5. Practicing Fluency: a Guide to Teaching Speaking Students need structured language input, but it is also important for them to purposefully communicate with new language in order to develop fluency. (Identity)   6. Student-Centered Conversation: Increasing Opportunities for Speaking in the Classroom Adult beginners often feel they need more speaking practice, and this presentation shows many ideas for increasing opportunities for student communication. (English KnowHow, American Headway) | 1 |