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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