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Katherine Bilsborough: A simple idea - The Weekend Game
A simple IdeaFor me, the best classroom activities are usually the most simple, requiring little or no preparation time and few or no materials. They are activities that can be adapted to use...
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Katherine Bilsborough - An influential teacher
Question: Can you think of a teacher who has had an impact on you? Maybe it was someone from when you were at school, or maybe someone you work with currently. How have they shaped what you do in the...
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Katherine Bilsborough: Lesson plans – less is more
Writing a lesson plan before a class is a bit like writing a list before packing for a trip. You can travel without a list of course but you will avoid a few problems if you spend a bit of time...
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Katherine Bilsborough: What? Who? When? - Using a photo to practise question...
One of my first experiences as a teacher trainer was in 1990 when I did an in-house training workshop for my colleagues in an English academy in Madrid. The workshop was about using pictures in the...
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Katherine Bilsborough - Taking the stress out of homework: 5 tips and 5 tasks
Homework can be stressful – for the students who are often over-burdened, for the teachers who are already up to their necks in marking, and for the parents of young learners, constantly fighting (and...
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Katherine Bilsborough - Building confidence through praise
As with most good teaching practice, using activities to promote a student's confidence is a simple matter of common sense. Confident students make the best language learners. By creating a classroom...
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Katherine Bilsborough - no-prep activities
Submitted 8 months 4 days ago by Katherine Bilsb....In my experience there are two kinds of ‘covering’ for another teacher.In one kind, the teacher knew in advance that he would be away and will have...
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Katherine Bilsborough: Using sketchbooks in the English classroom
Submitted 7 months 3 weeks ago by Katherine Bilsb....As a freelance writer, usually with around a dozen projects on the go at any given time, no two days in my working life are ever the same. But a...
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Katherine Bilsborough - Interaction patterns: why and how?
Submitted 6 months 1 week ago by Katherine Bilsb....This blog post is about why it’s important to think of the interaction patterns of our learners and suggests six stress-free ways of setting up pair...
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Katherine Bilsborough - From teacher to materials writer
Submitted 3 weeks 5 days ago by Katherine Bilsb....Most materials writers start their careers as teachers, sometimes moving into teacher training as they gain experience and maybe starting to give...
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Katherine Bilsborough: 21st century skills
Submitted 1 month 3 days ago by Katherine Bilsb....In this blog post Katherine Bilsborough uses current trends in education as a springboard for suggesting a few more 21st century skills that our...
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Teachers as materials writers: some considerations
Submitted 7 months 3 weeks ago by Katherine Bilsb....Are you a teacher? If you are, then you’re probably a materials writer too.Most teachers create at least some of their classroom materials, either...
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Katherine Bilsborough: Lesson plans – less is more
Writing a lesson plan before a class is a bit like writing a list before packing for a trip.You can travel without a list of course but you will avoid a few problems if you spend a bit of time planning...
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Katherine Bilsborough: What? Who? When? - Using a photo to practise question...
One of my first experiences as a teacher trainer was in 1990 when I did an in-house training workshop for my colleagues in an English academy in Madrid.One of my first experiences as a teacher trainer...
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Katherine Bilsborough - Taking the stress out of homework: 5 tips and 5 tasks
Homework can be stressful – for the students who are often over-burdened, for the teachers who are already up to their necks in marking, and for the parents of young learners, constantly fighting (and...
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Katherine Bilsborough - Building confidence through praise
As with most good teaching practice, using activities to promote a student's confidence is a simple matter of common sense.As with most good teaching practice, using activities to promote a student's...
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Katherine Bilsborough - no-prep activities
In my experience there are two kinds of ‘covering’ for another teacher.In one kind, the teacher knew in advance that he would be away and will have prepared a lesson plan, complete with materials and...
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Katherine Bilsborough: Using sketchbooks in the English classroom
As a freelance writer, usually with around a dozen projects on the go at any given time, no two days in my working life are ever the same.But a couple of things are pretty constant. The first –...
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Katherine Bilsborough - Interaction patterns: why and how?
This blog post is about why it’s important to think of the interaction patterns of our learners and suggests six stress-free ways of setting up pair work activities.Variety: the spice of lifeFor me,...
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Katherine Bilsborough - From teacher to materials writer
Most materials writers start their careers as teachers, sometimes moving into teacher training as they gain experience and maybe starting to give talks at conferences or writing blog posts. Lots of...
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