TV programmes vocabulary: lesson plan
Recently I published a post on TV programmes vocabulary. In this post I would like to add a few activities to help the teachers prepare a great lesson on this …
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Indirect questions: explanation of English grammar
When students hear the phrase indirect questions, they get scared. But actually this is one of the easiest grammar points in English. The only thing you have to watch out …
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Similes – learn the phrases
In my last post I try to teach 11 common similes in English. However, as some students still feel that they need more practise, I have decided to produce this …
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Future tenses – May and will
In English there are many ways to speak about future and at the same time there are many grammarians who claim that there is nothing like a future tense in …
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Two dates – a story about and for teenagers
I don’t know whether anyone will be interested in this mini series called Two Dates. However, as all the research shows that extensive reading helps students improve their English I …
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Passive voice
To learn Passive voice it is necessary to know the past participles. If you do not know the past participles go to our post on Past participle and learn the …
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How in questions
The word “HOW” is one of the most productive words in English. It helps us create meaningful questions and sentences. The word “HOW” combines with many other words to create …
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There is someone doing something – elementary grammar
I had been using these phrases long before I learnt that they were a grammar item. However, as I have to teach them to my students at school, I have …
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Adjectives with prepositions
Two days ago we encountered a simple exercise in our textbook. Students’ task was to fill in the missing prepositions. Even though my students are strong lower intermediate students who …
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Adjectives with the endings ed or ing
This is quite a simple grammar point – adjectives with the endings ed or ing. The more annoying it is when students use the endings incorrectly. In this post you can …
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Used to – learn to speak about things in the past
This will be quite a short post. But sometimes easy does it. So, I hope it will be the case. I would love to explain the usage and form of …
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Present simple and continuous tenses
Many elementary students feel they cannot see the difference between these two tenses. To help them I have created a rap which explains the grammar and gives some example sentences, …
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Conditionals grammar – the differences and usage of all the conditionals
There are very few grammar points that I know so well as conditional sentences. Students always ask about them and they appear in tests and students. I have tried many …
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Crazy Vocabulary – learn 11 new words in a rap
Scientists claim that the center for rythm is located next to the long-term memory in our brain. Knowing this, we could exploit it to the students’ benefit and teach them …
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Engames.eu site map – see all the posts on this site in one mind map
Mind maps are a great tool to make a lot of information easy to understand and clear. So I tried to use this tool to organise all the materials published …
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Negative prefixes – games
Negative prefixes are very productive. It seems that if you learn these then you might be able to create countless English words. However, it is not enough to learn only …
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Battle of Hastings
This material is a demonstration of the approach called CLIL. In CLIL You learn the content and thus you learn the language. However, experimenting a bit with the approach I …
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Verbs with two objects
Three days ago we were talking about presents with my students and I could hear that they were using the verbs buy,give, get etc. in a way that everyone would …
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Take a rain check – BBC programme
BBC site offers a lot of interesting and really useful materials for learners and teachers of English. However, they just present something and they do not give you much chance …
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Time Clauses
In time clauses it is important to understand that you cannot use WILL after certain conjunctions, even though you are referring to the future. And that is the whole trick. …
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