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Teacher’s Guide by Annglish Dear Fellow Teacher! I am Anna Gandrabura, the foun

Teacher’s Guide by Annglish Dear Fellow Teacher! I am Anna Gandrabura, the founder of English For IT and Annglish. I have over 13 years of experience in teaching all levels from elementary to advanced. I got my CELTA certiﬁcation in Teaching House, New York, I also hold a University of Oregon diploma. I have taken multiple courses and workshops at Stanford University on public speaking, management, etc. Currently I am conducting my own workshops all over the world. I founded my own English language school aged 21 and have been teaching at tech companies worldwide ever since then. Over the years I have accumulated many learnings which I want to share with you. That is why I have decided to leverage my experience of both learning and teaching English and put it all together in a guide. In this guide you will ﬁnd: how to prepare and conduct more interactive and conversation-based lessons how to upgrade you English list of resources where you can get modern authentic materials for crafting lessons overview of CELTA: what it is, how to teach in accordance with CELTA guidelines and who actually needs that certiﬁcation The guide will aid you in preparing and conducting lessons as well as developing yourself as a professional. My goal here is to create a knowledge sharing community of English teachers, where everyone could ﬁnd support and motivation to become a better professional as well as share their knowledge and even become a mentor. Join the Teacher’s Community in Telegram where you can ask questions, share your favorite activities, talk about tough issues, etc. And most importantly, never stop learning! Dear Fellow Teacher! I am Anna Gandrabura, the founder of English For IT and Annglish. I have over 13 years of experience in teaching all levels from elementary to advanced. I got my CELTA certiﬁcation in Teaching House, New York, I also hold a University of Oregon diploma. I have taken multiple courses and workshops at Stanford University on public speaking, management, etc. Currently I am conducting my own workshops all over the world. I founded my own English language school aged 21 and have been teaching at tech companies worldwide ever since then. Over the years I have accumulated many learnings which I want to share with you. That is why I have decided to leverage my experience of both learning and teaching English and put it all together in a guide. In this guide you will ﬁnd: how to prepare and conduct more interactive and conversation-based lessons how to upgrade you English list of resources where you can get modern authentic materials for crafting lessons overview of CELTA: what it is, how to teach in accordance with CELTA guidelines and who actually needs that certiﬁcation The guide will aid you in preparing and conducting lessons as well as developing yourself as a professional. My goal here is to create a knowledge sharing community of English teachers, where everyone could ﬁnd support and motivation to become a better professional as well as share their knowledge and even become a mentor. Join the Teacher’s Community in Telegram where you can ask questions, share your favorite activities, talk about tough issues, etc. And most importantly, never stop learning! "All of life is a constant education." — Eleanor Roosevelt Foreword What’s the solution to this? Use relevant, modern and authentic materials to help students develop an “English” mindset and help them build essential language skills Immerse yourself and your students in the real English-speaking environment and make your lessons more conversation-oriented Both of these goals can be accomplished by leveraging web resources and mixing in a few practices. As an English teacher, I have been using traditional textbooks for many years. While I still like to use them as a basis for my group lessons as the textbook helps keep your course structured, I have noticed one big issue: textbooks don’t teach actual conversational English no matter how good they are. Not to mention that they tend to age quite badly and rapidly. What is the difference between “I never asked him any questions” and “I have never asked him any questions”? “I started drinking a lot more coffee.” There is a good word that you can use here instead of “a lot” in informal speech. What is it? (Answer: “way”) You probably have heard about a British band called “The Who”. Their name is actually a self-aware joke because it contains a clever wordplay. Can you tell me what it is? How to make your lessons more interactive? Use warm-ups Warmups are essential for getting your students into the right mood for the lesson. After the usual small talk and before checking the homework / diving into the topic on the agenda, consider small conversation-based activities that you can incorporate into the beginning of all your lessons to get your students warmed up and thinking English right out of the gate. Minute quiz Students need to give the correct answer to a question that has to do with the English language. The challenge may be connected to the topic you had covered in the previous lesson or it may be something completely unrelated. It’s a good way to revise material or learn something new right at the start of the lesson. Did you try any interesting foods recently? If you could choose to listen to one song for the rest of your life, what would it be? What always brightens your mood? Which one skill do you most admire in people? What is one thing you learned this week (however small it is)? Q: Why did the scarecrow keep getting promoted? A: He was outstanding in his ﬁeld. You can ﬁnd more examples here Question of the day It’s as simple as that. Just give your students a question they need to answer as if they’re being interviewed (answering just “yes” or “no” is not an option) and give them about 1-2 minutes to speak. It’s a bit more structured than usual small talk plus it will help students build up their conﬁdence and ﬂuency. (Additionally, if they ever plan on taking IELTS, they will have a much easier time passing the speaking test after this activity.) the point of this activity is not to get a precise answer to the question but to have the students think on their feet and use English in spontaneous “real-life” situations if the students aren’t conﬁdent enough to speak on their own, encourage them by saying something like “Tell me more” or asking a follow-up question Jokes This will work well with upper levels and just people who enjoy somewhat corny humor. A question-answer type joke will work best for this. Give the students some time to come up with their own answer to the questions, then tell them the actual one. Additionally, you can also ask the students to rate these jokes on a scale from 1 to 10 (or from god-awful to absolutely hilarious) Blank slate This game is centered around completing collocations. Give your students a part of a phrase (e.g. ___________ house) and ask them to ﬁll in the gap. You get a point if your answer coincides with that of one or more players (for example if two players give the answer “on the house”). You can read more about the game here Make these warm-ups a constant part of your lessons. It will be something your students will get used to and will be looking forward to. It’s good to mix these activities up every so often just so they don’t get too predictable/repetitive Use the opportunity to teach students something new (vocabulary, cultural aspects etc.) during these activities. For instance, if their reply to a riddle is “I don’t know” - use that as an opportunity to teach new phrases like “I have no idea”, “I haven’t got a clue, etc.” Riddles Asking students to solve actual problems in English is a good way for them to naturally acquire the language plus there’s a lot of useful vocabulary that can be taught here. You are standing on the surface of the Earth. You walk one mile south, one mile west and one mile north. You end up exactly where you started. Where are you? North Pole Use articles 1. Highlight all the interesting words and expressions using a highlighter browser extension. Ask the students to read the article and translate the highlighted words (additionally, they can make up sentences with them.) Come up with a few thought-provoking questions to the article and discuss these questions in class. 2. Remove some words from the article and have students ﬁll in the gaps based on the context (give them hints if needed). How to craft interactive lessons Use TV shows You can craft an entire lesson based on an episode of a TV show with vocabulary, grammar and speaking focus like this one based on the show “Silicon Valley”. You can also take out the grammar portion and uploads/Litterature/ teacher-x27-s-guide-by-annglish.pdf