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Textbooks often don´t offer enough speaking practice. If the book is good it gives you two speaking activities per unit and nothing more. (adsbygoogle...

Grammar is very important. But grammar revision is often boring. (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); The following...

Sometimes it is necessary to teach the very basics because students often believe that they know it, but they don’t. Numbers 1-10 are a typical...

Recently my colleague noticed that our textbook contains too few exercises to practise the verb HAVE GOT. To bridge this gap I decided to create a board...

Recently I introduced Magic Grammar Cards in my classes. These cards are extremely versatile, easy to prepare and simple to use. Moreover, I believe that...

Six years ago, I spent a lot of time working on a magazine for learners of English. I managed to produce three issues. Today, I feel it is time to share...

In the previous lesson, I taught the affirmative of the verb TO BE and now it is time to revise the grammar and explain the short forms. First, we need...

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...

In this post, I would like to share three activities that stood out in my teaching this week. They worked very well and I think that my students learned...

For some students, sentence transformation is the test they are really scared of. They feel that they cannot form the sentences correctly and often fail...