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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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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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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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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Dates – adaptive learning
Adaptive learning has been the new buzz word in Language teaching community for some time. It sounds so promising. Students will learn only those things they do not know and …
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Numbers from 0 to 99
I have already published a post on numbers. However, there I expected that you know the basics and that you need to learn a bit more about them. This post …
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Greetings in English for elementary students
There are some words you cannot live without in any language, and greetings certainly belong among those words and phrases. In this post I aim at introducing and teaching nine …
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Vocabulary placement test – beginners
Recently we have published a placement test based mostly on grammar. Some of our readers commented that a vocabulary placement test might be useful too. That was why we have …
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Speak about means of transport
Means of transport is one of the topics you cannot avoid. Nowadays people travel a lot and they often have to do it on daily basis. And thus it is …
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TV programmes vocabulary: lesson plan
Recently I published a post on TV programmes vocabulary. In this post I would like to add a few activities to help the teachers prepare a great lesson on this …
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TV programmes – learn English vocabulary
Everyone watches TV sometimes. Thus, to be able to speak about what they watch students need some specialised vocabulary. The aim of the following post is to introduce and teach …
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Similes – learn the phrases
In my last post I try to teach 11 common similes in English. However, as some students still feel that they need more practise, I have decided to produce this …
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Similes for learners of English
A year ago George Woolard published a book called Messaging. There he suggests that learners of a foreign language should learn the whole phrases and sentences. By learning the whole …
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Town vocabulary
In this post I would like to introduce about 20 new words connected with towns. These words are neccessary if you want to speak about the place where you live …
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Dates – learn to say the dates and ordinal numbers in English
To say dates in English is quite simple. However, as there are two ways to do this, students often get confused and mix both of them together. I hope that …
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Numbers – learn to read and write numbers in English
In this post you should learn to read and write numbers in English. To help you with this I have created a simple graphical presentation and three games. I hope …
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Make and do – when should you use Make and Do
My friend keeps asking me whether there is a logical way to see if he should use DO or MAKE. I always told him that there is not and that …
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