February 20, 2016 Lexical Approach Lexis Criticism of the Lexical Approach "All chunks and no pineapple?" Image by Andrew Malone via Flickr [ CC BY 2.0 ] Writing an essay or working on a paper on the Lexi...
January 31, 2016 Activities Chunks Grammar Lexis Vocabulary 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...
December 29, 2015 Activities Collocations Lexis News Quiz 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...
January 04, 2015 Activities Chunks Collocation forks Collocations Lexis News Quiz Recycling 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...
December 28, 2014 Activities Collocations Lexis News Quiz 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...
October 31, 2014 Activities Collocations Corpus Ideas Lexis Online Games Recycling Vocabulary 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 ...
October 05, 2014 Activities Clips Ideas Lesson plan Lexis Video Vision Off Vocabulary 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...
May 31, 2014 Ideas Lexis Vocabulary Experimental vocabulary practice Image by Peter Megyeri on Flickr (CC BY 2.0) My interest in experimental practice was piqued at the TESOL France’s last annual colloquium wh...
March 01, 2014 Colligation Collocations Elementary Ideas Lexis Horizontal alternatives to vertical lists Photo by Tzvi Meller As much as it seems counter-intuitive, teaching new vocabulary in semantic sets (e.g. jobs: doctor, teacher, lawyer etc...