TEFL Resources and Lesson Ideas

 Note: This idea comes from Humanising Your Coursebook by Mario Rinvolucri (used with permission). I’ve found it to be a very useful way of practicing clear articulation, splitting sentences into meaningful chunks ("connected speech"), listening, writing, and various vocabulary, spelling and grammatical points.
 
Preparation: copies of a medium-length coursebook tapescript, cut into four sections of equal [...]

 Note: this idea comes from Humanising Your Coursebook, by Mario Rinvolucri. It is used here with permission.
Preparation:
Make copies of a reading passage from the last unit covered in your coursebook. I find it useful to enlarge the copies to about 110%.
 
Instructions:
Text-Stripping

Give each student a copy of the reading passage.
Ask them to delete all the adjectives;
Ask [...]