Christmas activities
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 …
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Clothes vocabulary
In my opinion, vocabulary is the most important part of language learning. If you know some words and no grammar, you can communicate. However, if you know a lot of …
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Facebook vocabulary
Facebook is the most popular social network in the world. Many of our students spend hours on it every day. But have you ever given them a chance to speak …
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How to teach collocations with HAVE # 2
This is the second post in which engames.eu has joined forces with Fluency MC to provide materials for teaching collocations with the verb HAVE. In this post we teach the …
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Learn the collocations with have
Jason R. Levine produces some of the best videos for teaching and learning English online. You probably know his super famous rap on irregular verbs. However, for this post we …
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Black beauty – free online reading
Extensive reading is one of the most useful language learning activities students can do. However, to be useful, the students have to know 95 per cent of the words in …
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Town vocabulary
Vocabulary is the most important part of language. Without grammar you can communicate with difficulty, but without vocabulary you cannot say anything. In this post, I would like to teach …
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Placement test for young learners of English
Placement tests are extremely important if you do not know your students well and you need to know what to teach them. Further, these tests can be used to measure …
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Weather vocabulary
Weather is one of the most common conversational topics in Britain. Therefore, if you know the basic vocabulary, you can talk to 60 million people. With 60 million conversation opportunities, …
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Learn 10 words in twenty minutes
This is the third post which contains ten new words for intermediate students. The words are among the 4,000 most frequent words in English. This selection of words is based …
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Office equipment vocabulary
Most of the people who learn English spend their life in an office. Therefore it is neccessary for them to learn the names of the equipment there. ADVERT: [showmyads] In …
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Kitchen tools and equipment
It is very popular to teach vocabulary in lexical sets. It is easier to explain the meaning and you can present quite a few items at one time. Moreover, the …
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This is the second post which contains ten new words for intermediate students. The words are among the 4,000 most frequent words in English. This selection of words is based …
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Learn 10 new words in 16 minutes
There is the famous quote which says that you can say very little without grammar but you can say nothing without vocabulary. I completely agree, and that is why I …
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Will for the future
There are many different ways to speak about the future in English. You can find all of them in the previous posts on future tenses at Will or be going …
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Christmas activities
Christmas is coming and it is always a good idea to have several Christmas activities up your sleeve. Here are the things I love to do when I teach the …
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Telling time in English
Telling the time is something I have to teach every year. And to be honest I have not been very successful. Even gifted adults struggled. And this year I faced …
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Common mistakes – holidays
The mistakes students make are ideal for learning. They are much more complicated than any mistakes in textbooks and it is more motivating to correct your own mistakes. Moreover, students …
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Alphabet – audio-lingual method
When I started teaching the English alphabet I was really sure that it will be fun and easy to achieve. My students had no problem learning the alphabet itself, but …
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Countries and nationalities
There are many different states and nationalities in the world and we cannot know all of them. However, it is necessary that you know your own nationality and the name …
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