Teaching Tips: Best classroom techniques for teachers of English

To celebrate the 60th anniversary of International House, we have produced a series of 60 'Timeless Teaching Tips' across a series of videos which you can access here: ihworld.info/Timeless-Teaching...
We consulted EFL experts, and also tapped into the expertise of the staff within our IH schools, to share their top tips for the EFL classroom. Whether you're new to teaching or are experienced in your field, these timeless tips might give you some food for thought in the classroom.

[@ronlugbill1400]

Great tips. I am so grateful you did not waste our time. Most KZbin videos waste our time and you have to listen to 10-15 minutes to get one piece of useful content. You gave us lots of tips very quickly. Thank you.

[@ihlanguages]

Thank you for your positive feedback Ron!

[@HappyLife-fh7nm]

The best teacher is the humble teacher.. this character was found in the biography of prophet Muhammad _PBUH_

[@bettina2101]

Roger Hunt is such a great teacher! Loved how he used storytelling with us CELTA trainees first hand!

[@CloselyObservedTeaching]

There are some really valuable comments here - by some of the biggest names in the EFL world. Fascinating stuff!

[@opsimathics]

storytelling is such an underrated activity, if you are expanding vocabulary and exploring collocations it can't be beat; it's also terrific speaking and writing practice

[@hananali1802]

Great advice from great people. I study your books with hope to be a good teacher. Hanan from Libya❤

[@KidsOnWeblearning]

Learning is a thing I will do until I die

[@KidsOnWeblearning]

+Farang Pussyhead okay , thank you!

[@samanthagarcia4251]

Thank you! Helpful and informative!

[@ACEducation]

Many great ideas. Thanks for sharing.

[@marlenemunoz3633]

Thank you for the tips and the link. I love Jeremy Harmer's books, specially "The Practice of English Language Teaching."

[@manocasinoi9771]

How can I buy the book. I live in Algeria.

[@diegosandoval1315]

Go to the Pearson web page and search for it.

[@31manhood]

What about the natural approach i find it appealing

[@acrabtree11]

Great video, thank you.

[@makradi]

Thank you very much for this informative work!

[@Iraqi7878]

Thanks indeed for your advice

[@imnobodyhehe]

admirable teachers!

[@theautistic.teacher]

Thank you! That's very helpful.

[@freddyram1969]

Thank you my dear and best teacher, Jeremy. Regards from Guayaquil, Ecuador. Greetings from Bénédict Schools. !! :)

[@hamedkhalil4757]

exhilarating,Thanks

[@benallalhamza145]

An excellent combination of, perhaps, the key techniques to teach English. We are certainly indebted to your efforts.

[@ihlanguages]

Thank you for you comment benallal!

[@busarakhamintasuk3767]

thanks for good technique

[@dipak8610]

A very good video for English learners and teachers.

[@vincentgordon7021]

To get to know the name of your students and to quickly take roll. use a seating chart. Quick glance you can tell who is absent and then while teaching you can call on all the kids by their names.

[@Anonymous-bm8sv]

Not surprised that Thornbury comes up with a simple and perspective-changing tip. I consider him to be the master of simple, yet highly effective teaching techniques.

[@enriquesalgadoaceves9017]

I'm attempting to learn how to teach basic English, I would appreciate any tips and pointers.

[@thomaskeller1454]

This looks like teaching English at a Hilton resort. Something like Teaching English In a Nice Environment to Nice People

[@77jcarva]

Loved thid video!!!

[@alial-zurfi4565]

its adorable work , thanks a lot

[@ghulamghulamabasz4276]

Thankew sir

[@TheTariqshakoor]

fantasist ideas

[@veekkaa]

Where are the other videos?

[@ihlanguages]

Hi Veronica, the other videos are on our KZbin channel here: kzbin.infovideos Enjoy!

[@Donnie442]

Has someone written in essay about this and would you like to share it with me?

[@Danielsafra]

4:20

[@englishfluencycoach7699]

Background sound is too distracting...

[@user-mw5zg7tr1s]

i like jremy harmer

[@jenniferdavies3596]

The background music is horrible and distracting.

[@geolocx]

hmmm

[@Knappa22]

Can't believe no-one mentioned drilling, repetition and imitation. That is the only real technique you need. A baby can't read a white board or take dictation. It listens to its parents, and copies them. Adults aren't really any different. You can teach any language to anyone without using any resources at all. You have a pattern you want them to learn, and you just use it again and again and again in the lesson, in as many ways as you can, and in as many set-ups as you can be that drilling, dialogue, repetition etc.

[@mikellyarte9106]

Knappa22 Linguistics has proven that just repetition, mimicry, and substitution drills don’t work completely. It has some use, but it can’t be the only techniques used. You need to contextualize language, not just memorize it. Students will get bored and retention rates will suffer. Most of language is used outside of the classroom, so you need to teach students how to be creative and active in their language use because otherwise, they’re just becoming robots who can’t think for themselves.

[@eflteachingstrategies2345]

So you are a behaviorist

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[@viveksingh5066]

It is just 06, not 60, why?

[@ihlanguages]

Hi Vivek, the playlist comprising all 60 tips from different videos can be found here: ihworld.info/Timeless-Teaching-Tips

[@eflteachingstrategies2345]

I need something new

[@pramodachilakamarthi543]

Nah! Not really great! We go to class to learn something new from teachers so listening to your story is not interesting not sharing my personal stories. You are there to teach! If you teach effectively you don’t waste time on chitchatting in the class. Teachers go out of the topic while sharing their personal stories. It’s ok to give a couple of examples but don’t make that your teaching objective.