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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...

Photo by Sudhamshu Hebbar on Flickr [CC BY 2.0] An article written by the British linguist Vyvyan Evans entitled “Language Instinct is a My...

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

Image source: www.willis-elt.co.uk I opened my Facebook yesterday morning and was saddened to see Chia Suan Chong’s post about the passing o...

Photo by @GoldsteinBen via eltpics on Flickr A second lesson with two new pre-intermediate (A2) students (I usually put my private student...

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

Second Language Acquisition ( SLA ) research also needs a lexical revolution to free itself from the shackles of grammar tyranny. Rant aler...

Sinclair's seminal work - the bible of corpus linguistics In this post I would like to defend linguistic corpora and their relevance to ...

This is a somewhat belated reaction to Catherine Walter's article which appeared in the Learning English section of Guardian last autumn...

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...

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 ...