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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Why Einstein Never Wore Socks
At Christmas I got and read a book by Christian Ankowitsch called Warum Einstein niemals Socken trug (Why Einstein Never Wore Socks). The author collects all the pieces of research …
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Months – a lexical set to learn
Months are one of the few lexical sets that students have to learn. In general, lexical sets are difficult to learn and remember. Therefore, we should teach vocabulary in thematic …
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Fifty most frequent irregular verbs
I can see what you think. Irregular verbs again? You must be joking!!! I know. I have already published many posts on irregular verbs. For example: Irregular verbs with Fluency …
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Dates – great activities to teach dates in English
It is very important for students to be able to say and understand dates in English. For example if our students deal with someone about a deadline, they need to …
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Thematic vocabulary – Birthday
In the issue 105 of English Teaching Professional there is a wonderful article by Chris Payne. It is called Plan V and it deals with vocabulary teaching. Chris explains that …
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Dictation for learners of English
Dictation is one of the best listening activities. To be able to write what you hear, you have to understand it and know the words. Once you can divide the …
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Irregular Verbs – Board Game
Irregular verbs in English are very important for students to learn. These verbs belong among the most frequent words in English and if you want to speak about your experience …
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Online Quizzes to Practise Present Simple
In this post I would like to share 7 online quizzes to practise the present simple tense. All the quizzes are in HTML 5, so you or your students can …
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Forming questions and answers in the present simple tense
In this post, I would like to share the best activities I know to teach questions in the present simple tense. The aim of these fun activities is to help …
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Difficult and hard synonyms
In English there are many words which have the same or very similar meaning. Words that have the similar meaning are called synonyms. In this post, I am going to …
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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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Speed reading for elementary students
Speed reading activities are very important for learners of English. By trying to read quickly, they develop their comprehension and fluency in reading in a foreign language. Thus they improve …
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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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Phrasal verbs with Fluency MC
A few years ago Jason better known as Fluency MC, came up with a rap song and a video. In this video he teaches ten phrasal verbs. And as I …
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Phrasal verbs II
Yesterday I published a post in which I taught 16 phrasal verbs which belong among the 50 most frequent phrasal verbs in English. In this post I am going to …
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Speed Reading
Paul Nation in his book What Should Every EFL Teacher Know suggests that every language course should consist of four strands: Vocabulary development, Extensive input and output, grammar explanation and …
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Books for teachers and learners of English
Ever since I was a boy I wanted to write and publish a book. It took over thirty years for my dream to come true. In this post I would …
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Grammar Up – a new book to improve your grammar
I have just published a new book. It is called Grammar Up. Grammar Up is a new, holistic approach to teaching and learning English grammar. When you take English in …
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