My Family — English Vocabulary Lesson for Kids | A1
Point to a family member and say: "This is my mum. Her name is Ana."
Category: English Teaching
ELT365 · Day 165 — Extensive listening outside the classroom
Extensive listening — whole podcasts, audiobooks, or shows at comfortable level — builds fluency and automaticity. Volume matters more than analysis.
ELT365 · Day 155 — Scanning for specific information
Scanning means moving through a text at speed to locate one specific piece of data, then stopping. The learner does not process the whole text.
ELT365 · Day 202 — Academic Writing at B2+: Hedging Language
Academic writing requires hedging — language that marks claims as tentative rather than absolute: "suggests," "appears to," "it is possible that." Over-claiming is a register error, not just style.
ELT365 · Day 170 — Note-Taking During Listening: A Trainable Skill
Note-taking while listening is cognitively demanding because decoding and writing compete for working-memory resources. Training learners to use symbols and abbreviations reduces that load.
ELT365 · Day 153 — Bottom-up vs top-down listening
Bottom-up processing builds meaning from individual sounds upward; top-down uses prior knowledge and context to predict. Skilled listeners use both simultaneously.
ELT365 · Day 152 — Why listening is harder than it looks
Listening in a second language demands simultaneous decoding of sound, parsing of grammar, and construction of meaning — all in real time, with no rewind button.
ELT365 · Day 205 — Speaking sub-skills — stress and intonation
Stress and intonation carry meaning in spoken English. A sentence stressed differently changes its meaning or politeness level. Teaching these explicitly improves both production and listening comprehension.
ELT365 · Day 201 — Linking words and discourse markers
Linking words (however, therefore, in addition) signal logical relationships between ideas. Discourse markers (right, anyway, so) organise speech. Both are often memorised incorrectly — learners need meaning, not just a word list.
ELT365 · Day 171 — Inference — reading between the lines
Inference is the ability to understand what a text implies but does not state. It draws on word choice, tone, context, and cultural knowledge. It is a higher-order skill often assessed at B2 and above.