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
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
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 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
It has been known that people remember grammar rules best if they come up with their own explanation. Therefore, the teachers should try to design their teaching activities in such …
Past tense of regular verbs Read More
Recently my colleague noticed that our textbook contains too few exercises to practise the verb HAVE GOT. To bridge this gap I decided to create a board game. A board …
Have got – board game Read More
Grammar Up is a new, holistic approach to teaching and learning English grammar. When you take English in school, you learn one piece of grammar at a time. After a …
Elementary Grammar Up – free book download Read More
Engames and Fluency MC have joined forces again to bring you a post that will help you decide whether you should use a gerund or an infinitive after a verb. …
Gerund or infinitive? Read More
Yesterday a friend sent me a song he’d written that uses only the past simple and past continuous tenses. He asked me how I liked it, and I had to …
Past simple and past continuous Read More
The past tenses of the modal verbs MUST, CAN and CAN’T often cause problems, even for advanced students of English. I have heard some of my best students, who had …
Past tense of modal verbs Read More
Recently I have published 4 posts on teaching irregular verbs. The posts were based on a rap song by Fluency MC. This post is different. This time I am introducing …
Past tense of irregular verbs – VA method Read More
This is the last post in which we try to teach the irregular verbs mentioned in the rap song by Fluency MC. This time there are 15 irregular verbs and …
Irregular verbs with Fluency MC 4 Read More
Students often learn just one piece of grammar in a lesson. Most of them master that day’s subject and move on to the next. But, when the time for revision …
Six different tenses in English Read More
As I wrote before, irregular verbs are the most important thing for all students of English to learn. However, it is not easy to master them. That is why Fluency …
Teach irregular verbs with Fluency MC #3 Read More
In my opinion, irregular verbs are the most important thing one has to learn in English. Therefore, it is absolutely essential that students know them. However, teaching them is not …
Teach irregular verbs with Fluency MC #2 Read More
I have already published 10 posts on teaching irregular verbs. You can see the list of the posts down here: Irregular verbs again Irregular verbs again 2 Irregular verbs – …
Irregular verbs with Fluency MC Read More
Students often hesitate over whether they should use an adverb or an adjective in a sentence. And to be honest, I did not make it much easier for them with …
How to decide between an adverb and adjective Read More
Most placement tests are for adults. There are few placement tests for young students. Thus, when a teacher tries to test his or her students’ proficiency in English using a …
Placement test for beginners Read More
Questions with the verbs WAS and WERE are among the most common in English. Therefore it is vital for students to learn these questions well. They have to be able …
Was Were in questions Read More
I like teaching prepositions of place. I can use the Cuisenaire rods, and my students can be creative in many ways and use English a lot. Here I would like …
Prepositions of place – elementary Read More