The Book of How to
do things in ELT

​70 Activities, Lessons and Strategies
for helping teachers help students learn

James Thomas

Ways and means of putting learners in the driving seat, developing their understanding of language and learning, using their study time productively and creatively, maximising class time for more interactive learning, enriching the joys of learning and discovering English.
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​The Book of How to
do things in ELT 

is for English Language Teachers who: 

• like lively, productive lessons
• use and learn from prepared activity and lesson plans
• need to know why they do what they do
• help learners learn how to learn
• want to teach grammar and vocabulary as interactively as they teach speaking and writing
• would like some insight into language and language acquisition

and who are interested or involved in any of these fields: CLIL, EMI, ESP,  L2L, 1 to 1, CEFR, TBL, TKT, ELT, EFL, ESL, CELTA, DELTA,  DDL.

The first two chapters of this book provide teachers with
Chapter 1. Dos and Don'ts and
Chapter 2. Classroom language that derive from the author’s years of classroom observations. 

The 70  numbered Activities, Lessons and Strategies that make up the rest of the manual are lesson plans for How to do many things. ​​

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Chapter 3. Pedagogy, teaching, classroom 
(4) How to get more class time for interactive tasks
(16) How to get students talking about their work

Chapter 4. Learning to learn 
(25) How to get students to prepare for the next lesson
(26) How students can create beautiful vocabulary notebooks

Chapter 5. Teaching Pronunciation
(28) How to introduce Schwa and apply it in context
(29) How to gesture vowel length
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Chapter 6. Vocabulary, Grammar and Functional language
(38) How to record findings about a word rosily
(43) How lining things up can clarify their meanings

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Pre-and in-service teachers and school inspectors at work in my courses in Algeria, Uzbekistan, China and of course, Czechia.
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Chapter 7. Active, comprehensible input: TPR
(48) How to say what we do with things
(52) How students can learn a text before reading it or listening to it

Chapter 8. Integrated skills
(58) How to get students to teach each other serious stuff
(69) How to move from L2 to L1 and back again