ELT365 · D162 — Video and visual support in listening
Idea — Video adds non-verbal cues — gesture, facial expression, setting — that reduce cognitive load and model authentic interaction more fully than audio alone. Example…
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ELT365 · D159 — Setting gist tasks that work
Idea — A gist task must be answerable from one listen or read, simple enough to capture overall meaning, and specific enough to require real processing.…
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ReadELT365 · Day 209 — Collaborative Writing: Group Tasks That Work
Idea — Collaborative writing tasks require genuine interdependence — each writer has a role (planner, drafter, editor) that the group needs. When any learner can write…
ReadELT365 · Day 207 — Summary Writing: Selection and Compression
Idea — Summary writing requires selecting main ideas and compressing them — cutting examples, repetition, and hedging. It is a separate skill from both reading comprehension…
ReadELT365 · Day 206 — Opinion Essays: Beyond the Five-Paragraph Formula
Idea — The five-paragraph essay formula produces predictable, weak writing at B2+. Teaching learners to argue — claim, evidence, concession, rebuttal — produces stronger thinking and…
ReadELT365 · Day 205 — Narrative Writing: Past Tenses in Context
Idea — Narrative writing requires coordinating past simple (sequence), past continuous (background), and past perfect (earlier events). Teaching these forms through narrative gives context isolated exercises…
ReadELT365 · Day 203 — Personal and Informal Writing: Register Markers
Idea — Informal register in writing shows through contractions, ellipsis, discourse markers (“anyway,” “so”), and first-person directness. Teaching register means comparing formal and informal versions of…
ReadELT365 · Day 202 — Academic Writing at B2+: Hedging Language
Idea — Academic writing requires hedging — language that marks claims as tentative rather than absolute: “suggests,” “appears to,” “it is possible that.” Over-claiming is a…
ReadELT365 · Day 201 — Genre Awareness: What the Text Type Demands
Idea — Different genres carry different expectations for structure, register, and purpose. Teaching learners to read genre before writing it reduces the “wrong shape” problem in…
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