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The world wide web is a great place to add depth to your learning, and we believe that the best students will read around the topics to improve their understanding. To help you with this, we have scoured the web to give you a list of the best links out there for each module.
The challenges and rewards of teaching with limited resources
The Station Approach
What the Station Approach is and how it can be used to compensate for inadequate resources, keep students motivated and eliminate behaviour problems.
Working with minimal resources – a teacher’s experience
Karen Waterston, a teacher trainer who has recently returned from Mongolia, tells about her experience of teaching in a limited-to-no-resources classroom and how she managed to compensate for the scarcity of resources.
Using the board
Useful guidance and activities using the board, from the British Council/BBC Teaching English site.
ESL materials to take overseas
Some suggestions for what you can bring from home when you'll be teaching at a school with minimal resources.
Using realia
Realia – the objects we use
A definition of realia, the reasons to use it in class and a selection of activities involving realia.
Using creative thinking to find new uses for realia
Some creative ways to use simple everyday objects to teach language points and make your classes memorable and exciting.
Drawing upon experience and imagination
Conversation questions for the ESL/EFL classroom
Thousands of questions you can ask your students to find out their opinions on a variety of topics, generate discussion and draw on their life experience without using any additional resources. The topics are listed alphabetically.
Activities and lesson planning
Teaching with minimal resources
A treasure trove of games, activities and lesson sequences for teaching with minimal or no resources.
Teaching teenagers with limited resources
Lots of ideas for activities in the classroom that can be done with very limited classroom and school resources – particularly suitable for teenagers.
Dictation
Ideas for using dictation in class.
Drama activities
Links to dozens of useful sites with ideas for using drama and roleplay.
The world wide web is a great place to add depth to your learning, and we believe that the best students will read around the topics to improve their understanding. To help you with this, we have scoured the web to give you a list of the best links out there for each module.
The challenges and rewards of teaching with limited resources
The Station Approach
What the Station Approach is and how it can be used to compensate for inadequate resources, keep students motivated and eliminate behaviour problems.
Working with minimal resources – a teacher’s experience
Karen Waterston, a teacher trainer who has recently returned from Mongolia, tells about her experience of teaching in a limited-to-no-resources classroom and how she managed to compensate for the scarcity of resources.
Using the board
Useful guidance and activities using the board, from the British Council/BBC Teaching English site.
ESL materials to take overseas
Some suggestions for what you can bring from home when you'll be teaching at a school with minimal resources.
Using realia
Realia – the objects we use
A definition of realia, the reasons to use it in class and a selection of activities involving realia.
Using creative thinking to find new uses for realia
Some creative ways to use simple everyday objects to teach language points and make your classes memorable and exciting.
Drawing upon experience and imagination
Conversation questions for the ESL/EFL classroom
Thousands of questions you can ask your students to find out their opinions on a variety of topics, generate discussion and draw on their life experience without using any additional resources. The topics are listed alphabetically.
Activities and lesson planning
Teaching with minimal resources
A treasure trove of games, activities and lesson sequences for teaching with minimal or no resources.
Teaching teenagers with limited resources
Lots of ideas for activities in the classroom that can be done with very limited classroom and school resources – particularly suitable for teenagers.
Dictation
Ideas for using dictation in class.
Drama activities
Links to dozens of useful sites with ideas for using drama and roleplay.