Be like Bill for grammar (and vocabulary) practice

The third person singular of the Present Simple tense is known to be particularly problematic for learners and when the "Be Like Bill...

News quiz 2015 - Follow up

Activities for reviewing lexis from News Quiz 2015 Photo by  Dustpuppy72  via Flickr  [ CC BY-NC-ND  2.0] Here's the promised follow up ...

News quiz 2015

Traditional end-of-year news quiz for the first lesson of the new year The dress which went viral To tell the truth, I almost broke the trad...

Lexical activities united

This is a quick post that consolidates some activities for teaching collocations and chunks that I’ve posted on this blog and elsewhere, spe...

News quiz 2014 - Follow up

Activities for reviewing language (vocabulary and some grammar) from News Quiz 2014 Image by DLR   via Wikimedia Commons [ CC BY 3.0 de ] As...

News quiz 2014

Traditional lexically-enriched end-of-year news quiz for the first lesson of the new year By Anthony Quintano  via Flickr [ CC BY 2.0 ] In k...

On (and off) the wall vocabulary activities

I often make students (and teachers I work with) get out of their seats. I think movement in the classroom is important whether you believe ...

Not a word was spoken (but many were learned)

Video is often used in the EFL classroom for listening comprehension activities, facilitating discussions and, of course, language work. But...

News Quiz 2013 - Vocabulary

Images by Tim Evanson ,   Gene  Hunt &  Alex Alishevskikh  via Flickr As usual, as a follow up to the traditional end-of-year news quiz,...

End-of-year news quiz 2013

Traditional quiz for your first lesson in 2014 By lasanta.com.ec  via Flickr [CC BY 2.0] For some reason I had a hard time coming up with ne...

Love Actually: activities, ideas, vocabulary

Image source: www.universalstudiosentertainment.com I use a lot of films in my teaching: not just occasional Youtube clips but full-length a...

It doesn't matter

Photo by Victoria Boobyer via eltpics   Do your students often say "it's depend..." or things like "it's not cost mu...

Binomials

Photo by @aclil2climb via eltpics Binomials are two word expressions (strong collocations) such as "dead or alive", "give and...