December 29, 2013 Collocations Listening Recycling Songs Vocabulary Web tools Top 3 web tools of 2013 As the year draws to a close it’s time for various top 10, 20 etc lists. I am going to limit myself to 3 and share the web tools that have u...
May 08, 2012 Chunks Ideas Innovations Lexical Approach Listening Task-based learning 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...
April 21, 2012 Activities Clips Conditionals Grammar IWB Lesson plan Listening Songs Video If I were a boy This activity based on Beyonce's song is suitable for older teens and adults at pre-intermediate level and up. The lesson plan is based ...
March 20, 2012 Background knowledge IATEFL Lesson plan Lexis Listening Research Vocabulary Before you listen, here are some words you may not know Pre-listening activities: what to focus on? At last year's IATEFL conference in Brighton I was at a presentation on teaching listening w...
December 17, 2011 Activities Clips Dictogloss Listening Video Would you like it gift-wrapped? Video dictogloss A dictogloss is an integrated skills activity in which a teacher dictates a text at normal speed and students note down as ...
December 27, 2010 Activities Clips Listening Video Vision Off No more Football! In this activity students first listen to a conversation in the film (the technique known as Vision Off) and then check their understanding ...
December 27, 2010 Activities Clips Collocations Innovations Listening Video What do you mean it's not in the computer?! In this activity students watch a short clip from the movie “Red Eye” and then discuss problems people may encounter when staying in hotels....
December 27, 2010 Activities Grammar Listening Songs Spoken Language “If We Ever Meet Again” An activity for adult learners based on the song by Timbaland featuring Katy Perry focusing on chat-up lines, the future conditional and adj...