Former English teacher and now best-selling author, Alex Quigley, joins us on the Tips for Teacher podcast to share his 5 tips:

1. Ask students to make a pre-topic mind map (02:55)

2. Focus on developing keystone vocabulary (17:58)

3. Try using a collage collection to stimulate ideas (32:24)

4. Play "Just a minute!" (44:32)

5. Support your students using sentence expanding (1:00:30)

Access the show notes and audio transcription of the episode, plus a load more audio and video tips here: tipsforteachers.co.uk