Welcome to the Straight Up English for Teachers video page. These short, practical tutorial videos demonstrate clear, easy strategies to teach a variety of topics to your English language learners. The focus is on teaching speaking and listening skills in a communicative classroom setting. In particular, you will learn how to teach principles of pronunciation, as well as more complex issues of oral communication.
Whether you are a native English speaker or a non-native English speaker, you are sure to discover lots of new ideas and interesting facts that will make you say, “Wow, I never thought of that!”
The Straight Up English videos feature a veteran ESL/EFL teacher and teacher-educator. In the videos, we show you how to present material to your students in simple, practical ways, and explain the pedagogical and linguistic reasons for the steps in our approach. After you watch the video, you can simply download our lesson plan (PDF) for this lesson. The strategies can be easily modified to suit most ages and proficiency levels. We make it easy and fun!
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English Mania
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Jay Walker explains why two billion people around the world are trying to learn English. He shares photos and spine-tingling audio of Chinese students rehearsing English -- "the world's second language" -- by the thousands.
Teaching Can / Can't
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The difference between "can" and "can't" is extremely troublesome for first time English speakers. What does that apostrophe mean? Why do you leave out the word "not"? All these questions and more..
Teaching Schwa
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Teaching Word Stress
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A simple tool to use for teaching word-stress is a rubber band. Laura explains two key features of word stress (vowel length and pitch height) and demonstrates how to use a rubber band to help students successfully articulate these contrasts. Youll be amazed how quickly your students 'snap' to attention...
Teaching Past tense
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Did you know there are three different ways to pronounce the /-ed/ ending on regular past tense verbs? Watch this video to learn the three simple rules and how to teach them to your students. You'll see the effects in the accuracy of their pronunciation and grammar!
Teaching Syllables
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Syllable identification is a fundamental skill for accurate word stress and overall pronunciation. Yet many English language learners do not know what syllables are or how to count them. (Syllables are not the same as prefixes, roots and suffixes but many students think so!) Watch how to teach syllable...
July 15th, 2009 - 5:04 pm
teaching syllables is big help for students!
September 3rd, 2009 - 9:34 am
Good Job! Keep Going!