English Punctuation
In this post, you can learn the words used for English punctuation. In this post, you can learn the words full stop, apostrophe, comma, hyphen, colon, dash, semicolon, brackets, question …
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Four Methods of Revising Grammar and Vocabulary
“Why don´t they learn? It is horrible. I have to give him E. Why? What do I do wrong?” I was desperate. “All they had to do was to learn …
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Phrasal verbs with BRING
A few days ago my friend Shanthi Cumaraswamy Streat publised a great post called “20 Phrasal Verbs with ‘BRING’ – Let’s Explore“. I liked it so much that I contacted …
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Language-rich lesson on questions
Recently I have felt that my lessons are not language rich. And that is something no EFL teacher is happy about. For example, I have been teaching questions to my …
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Past continuous tense
The past continuous tense is one of the most graphical tenses in English. By “graphical” I mean that it is easy to demonstrate the difference between the past simple and …
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English as a second language – Basic questions
When students start to learn English as a second language, there is a set of basic questions in English they need to master. All language courses start with these questions, …
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Top 5 posts in February
Another month is over, so it is time to recapitulate. In January I published 8 posts. Some of them were very successful but some were not. The most successful post …
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Present simple or present continuous tense – improved
I have already published a post on Present simple and continuous tense here. However, as my teaching situation changed I realize that I need a slightly different type of materials …
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Have got for elementary and weak students
I have changed jobs and now I teach at elementary school. And even though I think that I am an experienced teacher I have never taught students with actual learning …
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Irregular verbs again 2
In my latest post on irregular verbs I tried to teach 33 irregular verbs. In this post, I would like to add other 30 verbs which I hope you will …
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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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SVOMPT – word order in English
SVOMPT rule is one of the most important rules in English. If students learn to follow this rule, their English will improve dramatically, and they will be understood. Once a …
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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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