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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. Then the teacher has to search high …
3 Speaking Activities to Practice the Past Simple Tense Read More
In this text I suggest a method of teaching speaking and I explain why it should be done in this way.
How to get students speaking Read More
“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 …
Using Pictures to Teach English Read More
We live and teach in the communicative era. However, the textbooks offer very few speaking activities where students could practise the language they have learnt. That is why I decided …
4 TEFL Speaking Activities Read More
Speaking activities should be the core of the communicative approach. However, there are many textbooks that come with very few exercises to practise this skill. And then you have to …
Four EFL Speaking Activities that Work Read More
Recently I have spent quite a lot of time designing various speaking activities for my students. In this post I would like to share two speaking activities which help students …
Speaking Activities to Practise MUST and Past Continuous Read More
I have always wanted to be a writer. Ever since I was ten I dreamt of publishing a book. And on Saturday, thirty years later I did it. I published …
10 Speaking Activities Read More
In this post, I would like to share four speaking activities that worked very well in my classes. There are two games to practise comparatives and superlatives and two activities …
Four speaking activities Read More
Speaking activities are one of the most popular teaching activities. Students usually like them and they are very useful. However, there are not many speaking activities around. That is the …
Present continuous tense speaking Read More
The school year is starting and the summer holiday is over. Students are returning to their classrooms and we have to teach them. And I think that many of us …
My Summer Holiday – speaking activity Read More
Recently, in the post called Questions with Like, I asked you to choose the activity you would like me to write about. Most of you voted for a Speaking activity, …
Prepositions of place – speaking activities Read More
Speaking activities are the most important component of English courses using communicative approach. However, it is very difficult to find quality speaking activities that would work. That is why I …
School subjects – speaking activities Read More