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To see what condition your conditionals are in


Covering a colleague's class today and opened the book at the required page to see:  "Grammar - conditionals".  Hmm.  So what's attached here is what I came up with as a bit of a "Conditionals review", which (with any luck)... Continue Reading →

ESL TEDTalks


A nice site from Doug Evans with lesson plans based on TED Talks: ESL TEDTalks. I've only looked at the first two - "Superheroes inspired by Islam" and "My Green School Dream", so I'm not sure if the lesson plans... Continue Reading →

CLOP CLOP – You can lead a horse to water…


… but you can’t make it put together a successful  piece of writing.  The whole hoof thing and lack of opposable thumbs gets in the way of text creation in general and successful writing in particular.  Language learners on the... Continue Reading →

Collocation Pyramids & Collocation Tennis!


Yep, hot on the heels of yesterday's post on collocation trees, another activity to see how many collocations your learners can identify and to help them see a little bit better why a collocation is... well... a collocation. Collocation Pyramids!... Continue Reading →

Listening – The many uses of the pig!


This is a lesson based on a TED Talk by Christien Meindertsma, a Dutch author and researcher who followed the afterlife of a single pig after it left the farm.  Obviously it then went on to the abbatoir, but the... Continue Reading →

One Word – Multiple Meanings


One of the things that often bothers learners is the idea that there is more than one meaning associated with a particular word... A while back I was sent this link:  http://www.everynone.com/ which has great videos showing multiple meanings of... Continue Reading →

Horoscoped


The fantastic people at InformationisBeautiful.net have just done a trawl of 22,000 horoscopes and come up with this visualisation of the most common words used for each star sign.  So do they really all just say the same thing?  Have... Continue Reading →

The Domination Game


This was something that I originally cooked up as a comparatively fun way of doing revision / practice of an entire FCE Use of English paper without melting the learners' brains or causing everyone in the room to lose the... Continue Reading →

Oxfam for teachers – global citizenship in the classroom


Oxfam Education. Oxfam for teachers. Brings global citizenship into the classroom. This is a great site with lots of resources relating to issues that affect us all, both at the local and at the global level.  Most of the resources... Continue Reading →

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