Teaching English Association for Monastic Schools
The TEAMS is an association of teachers, trainers and volunteers working in monastic schools. We write and share the English teaching materials our members actually need: free to use, free to copy, and built to keep working when the connection does not.
Everything here is free. No account is needed to read or download.
01Teaching resources
Every resource is written for a real classroom: large classes, few books, no photocopier. Each one includes the lesson plans, the board work and a printable file you can keep on your phone.
A repeatable opening routine that gets every child speaking English before the first lesson begins, with nothing but a blackboard and a class list.
A complete unit on asking questions in English, built for classes where the teacher has a blackboard and the pupils have an exercise book and nothing else.
A full term of Grade 4 English, sequenced week by week, with every lesson planned and every resource included. Written for teachers who are covering English alongside other subjects.
02From the blog
Notes on teaching English where classes are large, materials are short and the timetable is unpredictable. No theory that cannot be used on Monday morning.
Most classrooms we work in have fewer books than pupils, and some have none at all. That is a constraint worth planning around rather than apologising for.
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In a class of sixty, whole-class questioning gives each pupil about forty seconds of speaking time per lesson. Here is how to turn that into eight minutes.
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Data is expensive, coverage is uneven, and the moment a teacher needs a lesson plan is rarely the moment they have a connection. So we built the library to be carried rather than visited.
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03How to get started
You do not need an account to read or download anything on this site. Membership is separate, and it is for teachers who want to be part of the association rather than a condition of using the materials.
Filter the library by level and by topic until you reach the thing you need this week. Every resource page tells you how long it takes, what it needs and how to run it.
Open the resource libraryDownload the printable file, and install the site on your phone so the pages you have opened stay available. Sunday in town, Wednesday in the classroom.
How to install itMembership is free. It connects you to other teachers in the same situation, and it is how you tell us what to write next.
Become a memberMany of our members are the only English teacher at their school. Tell us where you are and we will try to put you in touch with teachers nearby who are working in the same conditions.
Write to us04 / Access resources offline
Data is expensive and coverage is uneven, and the moment you need a lesson plan is rarely the moment you have a connection. So this site can be installed on your phone and keeps working when the network does not.
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