Learn and use students' names.

  Make eye contact with everyone and smile regularly.

  Respond to your students naturally and use humour where appropriate.

 Choose materials which match learners' needs and are pitched at the right level of challenge.

 Include pictures and diagrams on worksheets.

 Avoid overloading worksheets with too much text.

 Give learners a choice of activities.

 Elicit language and ideas from students.

 Provide a balance between teacher talking time and student talking time.

 Provide plenty of opportunities to practise language.

By Monica Poulter and Marie Therese Swabey
 EXPLORING THE WORLD OF ENGLISH LANGUAGE TEACHING

to get learners thinking about the story behind the picture.

to raise interest in a topic.

to introduce new language.

to describe people, places or things.

to start a discussion.

- the topic is relevant and interesting for your learners

- learners like doing the kind of activity the resource asks them to do
- the resource helps you to provide variety within the lesson