Klett Classroom Clips

Video tip: First lesson ideas – offline and online

Teaching tip

No need to be afraid of online teaching. Watch Gillian teaching her first online lesson and pick up some interesting ideas for your lessons.

Video tip: A Great! way to survive online!

Teaching tip

Seit über einem Jahr unterrichten vielen von Ihnen auch oder nur online. Daher interessiert es Sie vielleicht, wie eine gelungene Online-Stunde mit Great! Survival English aussehen könnte. Schauen Sie sich das Video an und lassen Sie sich davon überzeugen, wie gut die Tipps in der Praxis funktionieren. Viel Erfolg!

Video tip: Active grammar presentation

Teaching tip

Tell me and I’ll forget; show me and I might remember; involve me and I’ll actually learn.

Using the example of the present continuous, Dagmar explains how personalising your material can really help students to learn their grammar as involving students in creating sentences about themselves helps to make the grammar more memorable. Have a look at the video and see for yourself.

Video tip: Two truths and one lie

Teaching tip

Watch Lynda trying to discover which of Dagmar’s claims are true – and which one is the lie.

Video tip: A pack of cards – offline and online

Teaching tip

Using an ordinary pack of cards in the classroom can add some fun to teaching. From dividing people up into groups to practising tenses, see how you can use a pack of playing cards in your teaching.

Video tip: Running dictation

Teaching tip

Do you want to use an activity in your classroom that uses all the skills and introduces a change of pace? Then have a look at Dagmar explaining how to use a running dictation in your lesson.

Video tip: Season’s Greetings

Teaching tip

Watch and enjoy Lynda’s video about writing Christmas letters.

Video tip: Jigsaw reading

Teaching tip

Watch Dagmar explaining how to use jigsaw activities using texts from your course book. These activities are excellent to use because they practice the four skills – reading, speaking, listening and writing.

Video tip: Modelling tenses

Teaching tip

Watch the video and see how Lynda’s neat exercise practises the future ‘going to…’, the present progressive and the present perfect simple.

Video tip: Change places if …

Teaching tip

Watch the video and see how Dagmar uses a great technique to introduce energy and movement into the classroom. In the video she uses examples of tenses: present continuous, past simple and present perfect.