Videos to Teach the Past Simple Tense
Recently I have created a set of videos to teach the past simple tense in English. There is a video that helps students learn to form the past tense in …
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Past Simple for Regular Verbs – Videos and Speaking Activities to Teach this Grammar Effectively
Do your students struggle with the past simple tense? Do you want to make your teaching more effective and fun? So do I. I want to teach my students to …
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Five Short Grammar Videos
Grammar is very important. But grammar revision is often boring. The following videos try to make this task more interesting. Here there are five short grammar videos to teach and …
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Present simple and present continuous
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 several …
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Two Simple Online Tools to Teach English
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. Both of them provide …
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Colourful Teaching
Imagine that even your most challenged students understand new grammar? Imagine that they discover the rules themselves? Imagine that your students ask you to test them on the topic you …
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Conjunctions of time
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 graphic organiser which I …
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When I teach the verb to be again, I am going to do this – Lesson 1
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 …
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Questions in the Past Tense
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, students got confused and …
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BEEN or GONE – Grammar 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 wrongly, the meaning …
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Grammar Up book for free
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 will …
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Using Pictures to Teach English
“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?” she asked. We …
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SVOMPT – Word Order in English
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 understandable. …
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Reported Questions – learn this grammar
Reported speech is not easy but when it comes to reported questions students go mad. “There are so many rules to apply,” they whimper. “First, you have to change the …
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Used to, Get used to and Be used to
Recently one of my readers asked me to write a post on USED TO, GET USED TO and BE USED TO. He wanted a clear infographic and some exercises to …
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Reported speech – backshifting
Reported speech is often considered very difficult. Students fear the backshifting of the tenses, because they often do not know the tenses very well. If they struggle with the formation …
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Short adjectives – comparatives and superlatives
In his latest video Fluency MC teaches comparatives and superlatives. He uses about forty different adjectives and raps them in the comparative and superlative form. The song is catchy and …
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Forming Questions Quiz
Forming questions is one of the most important things in English. Can you form questions? Try our quiz!!! There are ten questions to form. How good is your knowledge of …
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Grammar Quiz 3
Another summer grammar quiz to practise your English grammar. This time it is a bit more difficult. ADVERT: [showmyads] [wp-review id=”3602″]
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Another Grammar Quiz
Try the following grammar quiz and see how good your grammar is. You can try a simpler quiz at Simple Grammar Quiz here. ADVERT: [showmyads]
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