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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...
Grammar rules... again?! Chunks strike back
This is a somewhat belated reaction to Catherine Walter's article which appeared in the Learning English section of Guardian last autumn...
Start teaching lexically in 2013
Many readers of this blog have read my rants about badly designed coursebook or digital activities and heard me moan about preoccupation wit...
News quiz 2012 - vocabulary review
Making history By Alexandre Inagaki via Flickr [CC BY 2.0] I hope you and your students enjoyed my traditional end-of-year news quiz I publ...
Traditional end-of-year news quiz 2012
Photo by Sandy Millin via eltpics A bit less heavy on political news this year and featuring more sports, showbiz and gossip items, here is ...
Highlighting lexical chunks with Diigo
Image by photosteve101 on Flickr www.planetofsuccess.com/blog Diigo is a social bookmarking tool which allows you to save and access all ...
One word leads to ... or you've been primed!
Introducing students to the idea of lexical priming and a web tool called Netspeak Photo by Tzvi Meller In my previous post from the For the...
In response to Hugh Dellar’s Dissing Dogme : In defence of… TBL
In the second installment of his thought-provoking and thoroughly enjoyable “Dissing Dogme” series (see here ), Hugh Dellar addresses the to...
What is your favourite chunk?
Blog visitors poll Leoxicon is about to clock up ten thousand visitors and I thought I should do something to celebrate this achievement. At...
Spent but enriched
In this activity, students play an online digital game (in pairs or alone at home) and then focus on the lexis related to money. I've ne...
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