29
Jun.2014
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Some posts take quite a long time to produce, but this one was an extreme case. Four people particip...
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Category:English games, Intermediate, Listening, Vocabulary
Tags: sports vocabulary, vocabulary
25
Jun.2014
A few days ago I wrote a post where I dealt with the mistakes my students made during their final ex...
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Category:English games, Grammar, Intermediate
23
Jun.2014
As I mentioned before, next year I am going to teach low level students, so I am trying to prepare s...
17
Jun.2014
This post is about common mistakes in English. There are two pieces of interesting research into lea...
14
Jun.2014
Next school year I am going to teach low level students, so I started to prepare materials for them....
11
Jun.2014
In the previous post we could see that verbs usually go with one or more prepositions. In this post ...
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Category:English games, Grammar, Intermediate
10
Jun.2014
Are you going to teach or learn the form "BE GOING TO" for expressing future? This post might come h...
9
Jun.2014
Yesterday I learnt Spanish and when I tried to reconstruct a text I found out that I do not remember...
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Category:Elementary, English games, Grammar
7
Jun.2014
The greatest thing that can happen to a teacher is the aha! moment when suddenly the students get it...
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Category:English games, Grammar, Intermediate
Tags: games, modal verbs, Modal verbs of deduction
5
Jun.2014
Students often use the wrong prepositions. So I have created this post in hope that this short expla...
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Category:English games, Grammar, Intermediate
4
Jun.2014
My students are online all the time. Through the internet they are flooded with information, but whe...
30
May.2014
Many students struggle with reported speech. They feel that there are many rules they have to follow...
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Category:English games, Grammar, Intermediate
27
May.2014
In my last post I try to teach 11 common similes in English. However, as some students still feel th...
24
May.2014
A year ago George Woolard published a book called Messaging. There he suggests that learners of a fo...
21
May.2014
Many verbs in English are often followed by the same preposition. Therefore it is best to learn them...
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Category:Elementary, English games, Grammar, Vocabulary
17
May.2014
Recently I have published a post on giving advice. And our post on modal verbs won the British Counc...
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Category:English games, Grammar, Intermediate
Tags: Grammar, grammar games, had better, ought to, should
12
May.2014
First conditional is very similar to time clauses. However, I would say that first conditional is ea...
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Category:Elementary, English games, Grammar
9
May.2014
Have you ever tried to memorise the following list of verbs to know when you should use TO and when ...
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Category:Advanced, English games, Grammar
7
May.2014
Phrasal verbs make many students feel hopeless. Even advanced students struggle with them and to be ...
6
May.2014
For and since are often given as the key words which signal that present perfect tense should be use...