Learn English through games
Speaking activities are the best thing in teaching and learning a foreign language. However, students sometimes run out of ideas about what they should say or the language they use …
Irregular Verbs – Controlled Past Simple Speaking Activity Read More
Recently I have created a set of videos to teach the past simple tense in English. There is a video that helps students learn to form the past tense in …
Videos to Teach the Past Simple Tense Read More
Textbooks often don´t offer enough speaking practice. If the book is good it gives you two speaking activities per unit and nothing more. Then the teacher has to search high …
3 Speaking Activities to Practice the Past Simple Tense Read More
Do your students struggle with the past simple tense? Do you want to make your teaching more effective and fun? So do I. I want to teach my students to …
Past Simple for Regular Verbs – Videos and Speaking Activities to Teach this Grammar Effectively Read More
Grammar is very important. But grammar revision is often boring. The following videos try to make this task more interesting. Here there are five short grammar videos to teach and …
Five Short Grammar Videos Read More
So this is Christmas. And once again I am looking for some interesting materials to use in my lessons. But I don’t want to recycle as the students often remember …
Christmas activities Read More
What is the best way to practise English? There is no universal answer. If you need to practise speaking, speak. If you need to practise listening – listen. And if …
Graded Reader Read More
Sometimes it is necessary to teach the very basics because students often believe that they know it, but they don’t. Numbers 1-10 are a typical example of superficial knowledge students …
Numbers 1-10 Read More
When I was teaching my classes online, we couldn’t practice speaking. We had to use Google Meet and the interaction was pretty limited. Once we returned to our classes I …
Past simple – speaking activities Read More
Play with your students this board game to practise the verb CAN. Students play the game and practice the grammar.
A Board Game to Practise the Verb CAN Read More
Recently I wrote a post where I share two macros which help you make a simple vocabulary revision tests really quickly. You just type the list of words, run the …
Two more Microsoft Word Macros Read More
In this post, I would like to share the materials I have created recently to teach the verb HAVE GOT. Presentations When I start a new grammar, it is most …
Everything I have to teach the verb HAVE GOT Read More
The aim of this activity is to expose your students to the grammar I am going to teach (in this case it is the present simple tense). Moreover, this activity …
Present simple – Trivia Quiz Read More
The aim of this post is to give you a set of materials to help you teach the difference between the present simple and continuous tenses. You can find several …
Present simple and present continuous Read More
In this text I suggest a method of teaching speaking and I explain why it should be done in this way.
How to get students speaking Read More
Lesson preparation can take a lot of time. Here you will find two Microsoft Macros that will save some time for you.
Two Tools to Save Preparation Time Read More
Here I hope to teach my students tell the time in English using both digital and analogue clocks.
This set of materials contains two videos, two speaking activities and a graphic organiser.
Master Yoda never bothered with the word order. But when my young padawans do the same I am not really happy. I yearn for a lightsaber precision. Especially adverbs of …
Adverbs of Frequency – Word Order Read More
The present perfect tense is one of the most difficult tenses for my students. Therefore, I have spent a lot of time creating various materials to teach this tense. To …
Present perfect vs. Past simple – new activities Read More
Grammar Pac and Dictate are two online tools which help me teach English. Both of these tools are online and they are made for interactive whiteboards. Both of them provide …
Two Simple Online Tools to Teach English Read More