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...
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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...
October 26, 2013
Corpus
Grammar
Lexical Approach
Lexis
Multi-part verbs
Task-based learning
Vocabulary
We are lexically indebted to him
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...
Lettuce, olives and other things
By @eannegrenoble | eltpics on Flickr In the middle of the market where I go for my weekly vegetable shopping there is a stall where I buy...
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...
In context or with co-text?
Photo by @Mr_Schenk via eltpics About a month ago I took part in a debate entitled Teaching Vocabulary: in or out of context where I was on...
March 25, 2013
Corpora
Corpus
Grammar
Lexical Approach
Lexis
Research
Spoken Grammar
Spoken Language
What corpora HAVE done for us
Sinclair's seminal work - the bible of corpus linguistics In this post I would like to defend linguistic corpora and their relevance to ...
Binomials
Photo by @aclil2climb via eltpics Binomials are two word expressions (strong collocations) such as "dead or alive", "give and...
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...
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