Blogs and Vlogs from Pavilion ELT

A new year, of whatever kind, is often a time of celebration, a fresh start, plans for the coming year, but at times, it can mean despair and confusion. Here, Gerhard Erasmus looks at how different cycles in your organisation can mean a ‘new year’ for different people you work with at different times, and how you can best address their needs.

Games are a great way to engage teenage language students, and offer a whole host of different benefits. Here, Damien Herlihy dives into ETpedia Teenagers to explore 10 games your teenage students will enjoy.

Gerhard Erasmus was a decade into his teaching career before he heard the word morphosyntax. Here, he explains why thinking about grammar as morphology and syntax opened up a whole new teaching world to him, as he explores what this means in practice.

Anna Hasper recently kicked off the MET Spotlight Webinar Series, shining a spotlight on how you can manage emotions when giving feedback. Here, she summarises the session to explore the impact of emotions on feedback and suggest some ways to proactively manage students’ emotions regarding feedback.

As we start to approach Christmas, children are keenly awaiting Santa, and adults vary from excited to dreading the money they might need to spend. Here, Gerhard Erasmus looks at Santa from a different perspective, and suggests why we must keep Santa alive, not just for Christmas, but for the whole year.

How can you deliver clear and effective instructions to young learners? Here, Damien Herlihy dives into ETpedia Young Learners to explore how you can master giving instructions to avoid confusion and chaos in your young learners classroom.  

Is the customer always right? And what does this mean for schools and managers? Here, Gerhard Erasmus explores why the customer actually isn’t always right, and instead puts the focus on being a student-centred organisation.

Improving their pronunciation is one of the most common objectives of students. However, teachers are often unsure about how to teach and correct pronunciation. Here, Rubens Heredia shares 5 tips to help your students pronounce sounds and words more clearly.

Anna Hasper firmly believes that a teachers’ job is so much than teaching a language; it is teaching people. Here, she elaborates on the importance of teaching with empathy and explains how this concept links to building a rapport.

The idea that comprehensible input is a key component of language acquisition is almost universally accepted by language teachers. Here, Gerhard Erasmus looks at how to use storytelling as a basis for comprehensible input, alongside examples of how he uses it in his school.