Phrasal verbs II
Yesterday I published a post in which I taught 16 phrasal verbs which belong among the 50 most frequent phrasal verbs in English. In this post I am going to introduce 10 more phrasal verb which belong into the same category.
Phrasal verbs I
Before you start learning anything, take the following quiz. Read the questions and choose the best option to see how many phrasal verbs you already know. If you manage to score 20 points, you can leave this page because you know all the phrasal verbs, I am going to teach here. <!– wp:more –> [WpProQuiz…
Speed Reading
Paul Nation in his book What Should Every EFL Teacher Know suggests that every language course should consist of four strands: Vocabulary development, Extensive input and output, grammar explanation and fluency development. By giving these four strands equal amount of time in EFL lessons, students will learn the foreign language. <!– wp:more –> In this…
Books for teachers and learners of English
Ever since I was a boy I wanted to write and publish a book. It took over thirty years for my dream to come true. In this post I would like to introduce the three books for learners and teachers of English which I published. <!– wp:more –> ADVERT: [showmyads] Grammar Up is a book…
Grammar Up – a new book to improve your grammar
I have just published a new book. It is called Grammar Up. Grammar Up is a new, holistic approach to teaching and learning English grammar. <!– wp:more –> When you take English in school, you learn one piece of grammar at a time. After a while, you become confused by all the rules, and you…
Sherlock Holmes – Diamond Secret
Some posts are easy to write and some take a lot of time to create. This one is the latter case. It took me three months to draw and rewrite the Sherlock Holmes story for pre-intermediate students. <!– wp:more –> In this post, I would like to share with you a graded comic called Sherlock…
190 Irregular Verbs mobile app
I recently created my first app for mobile phones and it became a hit among my students. Already 85 students downloaded the game and they are working hard on learning the new vocabulary. <!– wp:more –> However, as this app was just for Czech students, I wondered whether I could offer it to people from…
4 TEFL Speaking Activities
We live and teach in the communicative era. However, the textbooks offer very few speaking activities where students could practise the language they have learnt. That is why I decided to share several speaking activities with you. <!– wp:more –> In this post there are two speaking activities to practise describing a house using the…
My First Mobile App
Mobile phones are bad! Students spend hours on mobile apps and they do not learn! What can we do about it? I tried to do something about it. I prepared a responsive website for my students to learn on their mobiles and … they didn´t come. <!– wp:more –> But then I created my first…
Present simple – my best practice
In this post I would like to share with you the best activities I know to teach the present simple tense. To achieve this, I will recycle some of the materials I have already and shared here. However, there are several new materials (for example the infographic) which I designed just for this post. <!–…
Articles in English
For students who do not use articles in their mother tongue it is incredibly difficult to learn to use them correctly in English. In fact, it is very difficult to teach them use the articles at all. That is why I often spend a lot of time teaching definite and indefinite articles in English. <!–…
Must or Have to?
Elementary students are taught that there is very little difference between the words MUST and HAVE TO. Little as it may be, it exists. And in this post I would like to give you several rules which will help you decide which one is better in the given sentence. <!– wp:more –> ADVERT: [showmyads] In…
Grammar Games
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Grammar Games – Irregular Verbs
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Grammar Games – Have Got
In the first part of this quiz,you should write correct sentences about the pictures using HAVE GOT. In the second part of the quiz you should first match the pictures and the words and then write them. In the last part of the quiz you have to write the correct answers. ADVERT: [showmyadsa]
Grammar Games – Gerund or Infinitive
The best way to remember the verb patterns is by using them. Try the following quiz. ADVERT: [showmyadsa] To display the quiz on full screen click the button below. This game is called On Target, and your task is to choose the correct option and then shoot all the bad cows and ducks. You can…
Grammar Games – Future Tenses
The following quiz can help you practise the difference between present continuous and BE GOING TO. In the quiz, you should complete the text using either present continuous tense or BE GOING TO form. You will be rewarded with a game if you pass the quiz. Try the following quiz to practise WILL:
Grammar Games – Countable and Uncountable nouns
Practise the usage of the words FEW and LITTLE in the following quiz. You can take the quiz on the full screen by clicking the button: Choose the correct form: either HOW MUCH or HOW MANY. This game is called En Garde and your task is to answer correctly and then inflict as much damage…
Grammar Games – Comparatives and Superlatives
The following quizzes are not for beginners. They are for students who can understand the text and decide which form is correct in the given context. ADVERT: [showmyadsa] Before you play the video, take a piece of paper and something to write with. Play the video and write down the correct answers to the questions….
Grammar Games – A, THE, SOME, ANY
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