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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  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.

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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: Riddles

  A team game for teenagers involving riddles

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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: 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: The balloon game

  A fun game to energize students and foster cooperation / team spirit.

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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: 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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  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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  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 vocabulary: Presenting new vocabulary

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

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