The importance of teaching listening for teaching speaking
When listening is done really well, speaking becomes much easier for students!
New blog post about how we can teach listening to support how we teach speaking: bethlingual.blogspot.com/2025/09/the-...
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15.09.2025 16:52 — 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
We are there for our students day-in, day-out, and that is what counts - not whether you always say or do the perfect thing in every moment!
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09.09.2025 17:44 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
In January I started a new post as a head of year so I see all the time how important it is to be consistent with our behaviour expectations, and also how we communicate those consistently, regularly, clearly.
09.09.2025 17:44 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
You need to do something consistently to make progress - but not necessarily perfectly! This is your reminder to give yourself the same grace you give to your students, every day/lesson is a fresh start.
09.09.2025 17:43 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Consistency means more than perfection
Good habits, strong teaching routines, and positive relationships take time
If you've had a bad lesson/day (or even if it just wasn't perfect)... don't worry! Reflect and learn what you can from it, then move on. What you do consistently matters more anyway.
09.09.2025 17:42 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
🌟 Here’s today’s #NewTeacherNuggets! 🌟
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13.01.2025 20:32 — 👍 6 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
My favourite activity at the moment: children can see the 10 words we are working on. I say 9 of them randomly, then they have to tell me which one I didn't say. Always goes well and they get to hear the vocab lots of times. Helps to prepare in advance 👍. #mflbluesky
23.01.2025 16:54 — 👍 13 🔁 5 💬 2 📌 0
Looks great, I was hoping to get stuck in for next year but my school have decided numbers aren't high enough for A level to run 😢 hopefully in the future
28.04.2025 18:48 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Free dice game to practice speaking and writing (responding to unseen questions/bullet points) on my TES shop: www.tes.com/teaching-res... my most popular resource so far 🇫🇷 #mflbluesky
22.04.2025 19:11 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
The end of another term means another chance to reward the class who can answer the most questions in TL in 2 mins!
bethlingual.blogspot.com/2024/09/2-mi...
if you're looking for a quick speaking task to build confidence and automaticity in the new year, this works 💪 #MFLBluesky
18.12.2024 18:02 — 👍 3 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
A worksheet with a series of frames that have reflection questions in, my favourite memory was, I learned about, I was proud of myself for, I improved at, people who supported me were, my favourite book I read was, and next year I will spend more time on.
Just added a free '2024 reflections' resource to guide students to think about the past year in review. Hopefully, a lovely tutor time activity amidst the chaos of the last week before Christmas: www.tes.com/teaching-res... #MFLBluesky #Edusky
16.12.2024 17:58 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Thank you! I'm looking forward to it
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I've got some exciting news to share... from January I'm going to be the Head of Year 8 at my school! 🎉
13.12.2024 17:21 — 👍 9 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0
That's great! Glad to hear it worked for you 😊
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