Teacher Resources

Courtesy of Oxford University Press
July 2005

Each month, we provide a selection of teacher resources - teaching activities and ideas - chosen from among the huge selection of resource books published by Oxford University Press. Month by month, we will build up a library of practical resources that you can take straight into the classroom. The ideas and activities are divided into categories: Kids, Junior High School, Senior High School, and Adults (includes college students). If you are interested in buying the books, they are all available (at a 20% discount for ETJ members) from the David English House Book Service.

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This Month's Teaching Resources

Oxford Basics: Simple Speaking Activities
This activity practices the vocabulary areas of "colours" (blue, red, brown) and "everyday objects" (plate, pencil, envelope). Students first draw and color a variety of objects that are then divided amongst the class. Students must get the items they drew back by asking engaging in a dialogue.

Download the activity here:

Activity - Colours (60 KB)

Oxford Basics: Simple Speaking Activities
Jill Hadfield / Charles Hadfield / Brian Gardener / Felicity Gardener
ISBN: 0194421694
Oxford Basics is a series of short accessible books for teachers who may be unfamiliar with communicative methodology. The books contain easy-to-follow communicative activities in simple English. They are written by experienced teachers who are familiar with the problems of struggling with limited resources, and they give clear methodological guidance.

Simple Speaking Activities contains thirty activities at the elementary level dealing with topics that which form part of everybody’s everyday lives. The only materials the teacher and class need are the board paper and pens!

Resource Books for Teachers: Music and Song
This activity for intermediate to advanced students encourages creativity with English. Students are given the first few lines of a song they don't know but would enjoy and asked to predict the rest of the song's lyrics. This is an opportunity for students to let their imagination run wild.

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Activity - Partial song dictation (87 KB)

Resource Books for Teachers: Music and Song
Tim Murphey
ISBN: 0194370550
The Resource Books for Teachers series from Oxford give teachers and trainee teachers practical guidance in key aspects of language training. Each book introduces important current issues in a key area, and provides a practical resource bank of activities for teachers to use, including many photocopiable activity pages.

Music and Song features 80 varied and imaginative activities for using music and song in the classroom that are suitable for both children and adults. This book shows how any piece of music, from folk and classical to jazz, rock and pop, can be exploited in an immense variety of lively and interesting ways in the language classroom. The author suggests ways to integrate the motivating aspects of music into all areas of English teaching.

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