John Hughes
John Hughes is a teacher trainer and ELT course book author. His titles include Life (National Geographic Learning) and Business Result (Oxford University Press). He is also the series editor for the ETpedia resources (www.myetpedia.com).
How Zoom is making classroom recordings a key part of our teaching — National Geographic Learning: In Focus
In traditional face-to-face teaching, there have always been lots of benefits to recording students in class. For example, if you make an audio recording of a role play conversation, then the two students can listen back. Or a student can make a video recording of their presentation, watch it back and self-analyze afterwards. However, this…
Five practical ideas for starting English lessons with Zoom
Like so many teachers, I recently started delivering my English lessons on Zoom. On reflection, I’ve been pleasantly surprised that so many of the …
Five practical ideas for starting English lessons with Zoom
Exploiting video for authentic English — National Geographic Learning: In Focus
So far in this series of articles on using video in the classroom, I’ve focussed on ways to plan a video lesson and how to make the activities more collaborative. In this post, I’d like to look at the impact authentic video can have on a lesson when we teach real English from it. One…
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‘Critical Thinking in ELT’ is an ELTons 2020 finalist
‘Critical thinking in ELT‘ by Paul Dummett and myself, published by National Geographic Learning, has been shortlisted as a finalist in the ELTons 2020. For full details, visit https://www.teachingenglish.org.uk/article/eltons-innovation-awards-2020-finalists
