All articles by Olha Madylus

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Using Cuisenaire rods with young learners

Olha Madylus tells us what Cuisenaire rods are and why they are useful for teaching English to young learners.

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Methodology: Teaching young children one-to-one

Olha Madylus answers a question about the difficulties involved in finding material for one-to-one classes with young learners.

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Beginning reading and writing: Introducing letters

Olha Madylus offers a selection of tips and activities for familiarising children with the sound of English and offers a practical way to introduce the alphabet using phonics.

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Weather

Olha Madylus offers a selection of teaching ideas and activities on the theme of weather.

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Teaching approaches

This article by Olha Madylus contains advice and suggestions for activities that can be used to teach general topics.

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Lesson Share: Teenagers: riddles

Short activities for teenagers which can be used to fill 15 minutes at the beginning, middle or end of a lesson.

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Teenagers: Limited resources

Lots of ideas for activities in the classroom that can be done with very limited classroom and school resources.

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Lesson Share: Teenagers: Riddles

A team game for teenagers involving riddles

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Lesson Share: Teenagers: Lateral thinking

This is an activity where students have to work out riddles, and practises question forms and vocabulary.

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Lesson Share: Teenagers: Sherlock Holmes

A simple and fun exercise to get students moving and practise questions.

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Lesson Share: Teenagers: Fruits and vegetables

An ice-breaker exercise for practising conversation and vocabulary.

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Lesson Share: Teenagers: Jokes (a silly dictation)

This warmer/lesson filler exercise is a missing word dictation which will get students laughing.

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Lesson Share: Teenagers: Noughts and crosses

A warmer/lesson filler activity to revise vocabulary from previous lessons in a fun, stress-free, game-like way.

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Classroom management: Classroom layout

Olha Madylus offers three suggestions for classroom layout, with advantages and disadvantages for using each.

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Classroom management: Maximizing your space

This article by Olha Madylus contains suggestions for activities which maximize the space available to you in your classroom.

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Beginning reading and writing: Internalizing letters

Olha Madylus offers a selection of physical activities that help children remember the shape of letters they've been introduced to.

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Beginning reading and writing: Recognition games

Olha Madylus offers a selection of games that help children recognise and use the letters they've been introduced to, including beginning to write them.

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Beginning reading and writing: Learning words

Olha Madylus offers a selection of tips and activities to help your students begin to put letters together to form words.

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Beginning vocabulary: Presenting new vocabulary

Olha Madylus gives advice on how to present and practise vocabulary, using a practical staged approach.

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Beginning vocabulary: Pronunciation and drilling

Olha Madylus gives advice on how to get your young learners practising pronunciation, using techniques including choral repetition, songs and tongue twisters.