For trainers

The following free downloads are designed to offer you and your class the opportunity to consider some of the TKT topics in more detail. While The TKT Course is a complete preparation for the Teaching Knowledge Test, you may find that as you progress through the course, you have extra time to focus on areas of particular interest to your TKT candidates. Studying for the TKT is, after all, an opportunity to develop as a teacher, gain new insights and explore new ideas, as well as to gain a recognised qualification.

The selected activities include a combination of conventional exercises, scenarios for consideration, and classroom observation tasks. They are particularly useful for stimulating discussion, and encouraging trainees or recently qualified teachers to challenge their existing ideas and values about teaching. While many of the activities include open questions, with no 'correct' answers, there are also keys, commentaries and trainer's notes available to help you prepare for the activities and guide the lesson.

All of the downloadable activities are taken from the Cambridge Teacher Training and Development series

Module 1 - Language and background to language learning and teaching

Topics	Downloadable activities	Trainer's notes	Activity type	Source title
Describing language and language skills Background to language learning Background to language teaching	Language systems and syllabuses	Key and commentaries	Tasks/Questions/Discussion	About Language Scott Thornbury
	Forms, functions, notions, texts	Key and commentaries	Tasks/Questions/Discussion	About Language Scott Thornbury
	Practice activities	Trainer's Book pages	Tasks/Questions/Discussion	A Course in Language Teaching Penny Ur

Module 2 - Planning lessons and use of resources for language teaching

Topics	Downloadable activities	Trainer's notes	Activity type	Source title
Planning and preparing a lesson or sequence of lessons Selection and use of resources and materials	Discussion Task 12, 13 - Planning individual lessons, Lesson aims	Trainer's pages	Discussion	Tasks for Language Teachers Martin Parrott
	Classroom based Task 7- Evaluating lesson plans	Trainer's page	Classroom practice	Tasks for Language Teachers Martin Parrott
	Materials and Resources		Observation	Classroom Observation Tasks Ruth Wajnryb

Module 3 - Managing the teaching and learning process

Topics	Downloadable activities	Trainer's notes	Activity type	Source title
Teachers' and learners' language in the classroom Classroom management	Giving feedback	Trainer's Book pages	Tasks/Questions/Discussion	A Course in Language Teaching Penny Ur