News quiz 2015 - Follow up

Activities for reviewing lexis from News Quiz 2015 Photo by  Dustpuppy72  via Flickr  [ CC BY-NC-ND  2.0] Here's the promised follow up ...

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...

10 things you can do with "10 things you didn't know last week"

10 things you didn't know last week is a digest of news snippets published every Friday on the BBC website. You can find it in a sectio...

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...

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...

News Quiz 2013 - Vocabulary

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

End-of-year news quiz 2013

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...

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 ...

News Quiz 2011 - Follow Up

Activities for recycling lexis from last week's end-of-year quiz  So here we are in 2012... Come to think of it, it's funny that we ...

News quiz 2011 and end-of-year round-up

Round-up My blog celebrates its first birthday today. It’s been a busy year so I haven’t blogged as often as I should have – probably below ...

A tried-and-tested idea for the first lesson(s) of the New Year

Hello and welcome to my blog! As some of you may know, I've been doing an end-of-year news round-up for quite a few years now. However t...