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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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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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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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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Go and do something phrases
In the last half a year I have taught this, in my opinion easy, piece of language and I have failed miserably in both cases. And on the basis of …
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Jack the Giant Killer – part 2
In the first part of the comic story we met Jack and we learnt about 30 new vocabulary item. Now, it is time to finish the story and learn some …
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Vocabulary placement test – intermediate students
Have you tried our vocabulary placement test for elementary students, and it was too easy for you? Have you scored close to 2000? Then this is the vocabulary test you …
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Jack the Giant Killer – comic story part 1
Students like reading comics. Comics are often the only thing students read. When I started an extensive reading project last year, students did not mind reading comics, however when we …
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Confusing words: BIG or LARGE, HIGH or TALL
For many learners of English the slight differences between the words BIG vs. LARGE and HIGH vs. TALL are very difficult to understand. In this post I will try to …
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The Kiss story by Kate Chopin
Kate Chopin was an American author from the end of the 19th century and she wrote very interesting stories. I have taken one of the shorter ones and simplified it …
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Maths in English
“What does maths have to do with learning English?” you might ask. Many people believe that nothing. In fact many wrongly believe that you can be good either at maths …
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