Numbers 1-10
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 example of superficial knowledge students …
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Health and disease vocabulary
In this post, you can learn the words connected with health and disease. Here we will try to teach you the following words: breathe, allergy, obesity, heart attack, depression, decrease, …
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English Punctuation
In this post, you can learn the words used for English punctuation. In this post, you can learn the words full stop, apostrophe, comma, hyphen, colon, dash, semicolon, brackets, question …
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Teaching Vocabulary at School
Vocabulary is much more important than grammar. If you know the meaning of the words you can understand a text even without knowing the grammar. If you listen to a …
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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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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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Advanced Vocabulary Quiz 2
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Advanced Vocabulary Quiz
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My First Mobile App
Mobile phones are bad! Students spend hours on mobile apps and they do not learn! What can we do about it? I tried to do something about it. I prepared …
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Parts of the body – vocabulary
For a long time I felt that I was missing a post on this site on parts of the body. But I wasn’t inspired enough to close this gap. Fortunately, a few …
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How are you?
Yesterday English Through Music published an awesome song called “How are you?”. As the song is easy to remember and sing, I contacted Jules and asked him for a permission …
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Phrasal verbs with BRING
A few days ago my friend Shanthi Cumaraswamy Streat publised a great post called “20 Phrasal Verbs with ‘BRING’ – Let’s Explore“. I liked it so much that I contacted …
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Learn 10 words in twenty minutes
This is the third post which contains ten new words for intermediate students. The words are among the 4,000 most frequent words in English. This selection of words is based …
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Present simple tense for elementary students
Present simple is one of the most important tenses in English. It is quite easy to teach and learn but it must be done properly. In this post I am …
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This is the second post which contains ten new words for intermediate students. The words are among the 4,000 most frequent words in English. This selection of words is based …
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Learn 10 new words in 16 minutes
There is the famous quote which says that you can say very little without grammar but you can say nothing without vocabulary. I completely agree, and that is why I …
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Countries and nationalities
There are many different states and nationalities in the world and we cannot know all of them. However, it is necessary that you know your own nationality and the name …
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Six Methods to teach vocabulary using Mother Tongue
As a teacher working with a textbook you often need to pre-teach a lot of new vocabulary, because otherwise the text on the following page will be incomprehensible to your …
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Vocabulary placement test – intermediate students
Have you tried our vocabulary placement test for elementary students, and it was too easy for you? Have you scored close to 2000? Then this is the vocabulary test you …
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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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