TEFL Resources and Lesson Ideas

Suggested levels: upper-intermediate to advanced.
Aims: to practise the “pure sounds” of English; to hear and produce these sounds in a published poem.
Materials: the YouTube lessons below (familiarise yourself with these before the lesson); this recorded poem by Thom Gunn.
This is a great way to practise pronunciation of individual phonemes (especially monophthongs) and sentence stress; it [...]

Note: This idea comes from Writing Simple Poems (Cambridge: University Press, 2001).

Suggested levels: pre-intermediate to low upper-intermediate.
Aims: to practise a grammatical form; to see how a form can be used in different contexts within one poem.

Before the lesson, think of a kind of poem you could write with the grammar structure you’ve been teaching, and [...]

Note: I THINK this idea is one of my own – though, like most plans, it seems an amalgam of bits and pieces from forgotten places…
Suggested level: pre-intermediate/ intermediate.
Aims: to focus on the sounds of English; to practise English sentence construction; to practise English rhythms and stress patterns.
Materials: copies of the limerick below for each [...]