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Teaching Your Subject in English

Cambridge Assessment English

A pile of reference books including a dictionary

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Check that you’re confident with the terms below.

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Assumptions
Contraction
Elicit
Higher order thinking skills (HOTS)
Learning objectives
Lower order thinking skills (LOTS)
Sentence stress
Stressed sounds
Stress-timed language
Unstressed sounds
Visual organisers

If you need to check any of this terminology, have a look at the Week 1 Glossary.

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Eliciting
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Cambridge English | Teaching Your Subject in English | Video | Teachers discussing elicitation in subject-specific lessons
Describing, explaining and giving examples
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Cambridge English | Teaching Your Subject in English | Video | Teachers talking about describing, explaining and giving examples in content lessons
Questions to develop creativity
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Cambridge English | Teaching Your Subject in English | Video | Teachers discuss language to develop learners' creativity
Organising and managing pair and group work
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Cambridge English | Teaching Your Subject in English | Video | Teachers discuss language for organising and managing pair and group work
Getting learners to evaluate/reflect on learning
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Cambridge English | Teaching Your Subject in English | Video | Teachers discuss language for evaluating and reflecting on learning