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2 Jul 2020

Tips for Reading

Today, let’s look again at Reading. I’ve written quite a few posts on this subject recently and shared some activities and tips. The Reading choiceboard with ideas for primary students, for example. Reading is loved by many and dreaded (and...

30 Jun 2020

Personalising the ‘Starting at a new school’ A2 Key for Schools RW Part 3 text

Posted ByAnne Robinson

TagsA2 Key, A2 Key for Schools, personalisation, reading

Today, I’d like to share a lesson plan for personalising the Starting at a new school text (from the A2 Key for Schools Sample Paper). In my previous post, I suggested how to train students to do this task. Students...

29 Jun 2020

About A2 Key Reading Part 3 and how to do it

Posted ByAnne Robinson

TagsA2 Key, A2 Key for Schools, reading

Today, I’ll analyse A2 Key Reading Part 3 and give some tips on how students can approach it. In Part 3 of the A2 Key Reading and Writing test, students have to read a longer text and choose the answer...

24 Jun 2020

Choiceboard with multiple ideas for reading texts

Posted ByAnne Robinson

TagsA1 Movers, A2 Flyers, Pre A1 Starters, reading

Yesterday, I was very excited to read a message. It was to say that the choiceboard that I wrote with lots of ideas for reading had been published by Cambridge University Press ELT Ukraine. It looks great! You can download...

28 May 2020

‘New’ resources!

Posted ByAnne Robinson

TagsA2 Flyers, A2 Key for Schools, B1 Preliminary, B2 First, Pre A1 Starters, vocabulary

Today, I thought I’d write about the word ‘new’ – an extremely common three letter word, which learners will encounter again and again as they move up the levels. Using the wordlists for Pre A1 Starters, A1 Movers and A2...

27 May 2020

Giving students choices in post-reading activities for B1 Preliminary Reading Part 4

Posted ByAnne Robinson

TagsB1 Preliminary, Choice, reading, webinar

Support, challenge and choice is a topic that I love – and the element of choice is something I like to give students whenever I can. For example, if I’m setting a writing task, like an essay for B2 First,...

26 May 2020

Encouraging students to ‘wonder’ – even with exam reading texts!

Posted ByAnne Robinson

TagsB1 Preliminary, Critical thinking, reading, speaking

Just because we’re doing an exam reading task with students, doesn’t mean that they have to stop ‘wondering’ and using their imagination. Curiosity is a natural instinct, and is essential for learning. Without it, perhpas students won’t explore on their...

25 May 2020

How to approach B1 Preliminary Reading Part 4

Posted ByAnne Robinson

TagsB1 Preliminary, engaging with exam tasks, reading

In this post, I’ll share some tips for introducing students to B1 Preliminary Reading Part 4. This task will very probably be new to them – for several reasons. 1 It’s a new task, which was introduced in the 2020...

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