Tag Archives: Grammar

The aim of this post is to give you a set of materials to help you teach the difference between the present simple and continuous tenses. You can find...

Grammar Pac and Dictate are two online tools which help me teach English. Both of these tools are online and they are made for interactive whiteboards....

Imagine that even your most challenged students understand new grammar? Imagine that they discover the rules themselves? Imagine that your students ask...

To teach the conjunctions of time, it is crucial that the students understand the meaning of the conjunctions. That is why I have created the following...

I have already taught the verb to be many times. But this year I failed exemplarily. So I stopped and spent a week planning a sequence of lessons to really...

I remember the times in my teaching career when I dreaded teaching questions. I especially hated the questions in the past simple tense. After my explanation,...

The difference between the words BEEN and GONE is a nice example of how closely grammar and vocabulary are connected. Usually, when you use a grammar rule...

In this post, I would like to give away my book called GRAMMAR UP. This book uses a new, holistic approach to learning English grammar. In this book, you...

“He must be joking!” I thought. I was shocked but I kept quiet. My friend Jane didn´t. “Why the hell should I throw all my work away?”...

The SVOMPT rule is the most important rule in English. As there are very few declinations in English, the word order rule is the one that keeps the sentences...