Giving feedback on classroom tasks is a tricky thing to come up with ideas for. Broadly, I think methods can be broken down into Collaborative / Competitive / Partial / Full. The four methods can interact, so you can have... Continue Reading →
It only occurred to me later that there's probably a wealth of material already out there in webspace on dependent prepositions and that it wouldn't be too difficult or time consuming to look for some of it... So here's a... Continue Reading →
It's a slightly strange phrase that - dependent prepositions - gives you the slight air of a bunch of small words hanging around a much larger word who feeds and clothes them and goes and and earns a wage with... Continue Reading →
This a re-post of a re-post.... Simon Thomas (http://www.efl-resource.com/on-english-grammar-lessons/) originally spotted this post on Larry Ferlazzo's blog (http://larryferlazzo.edublogs.org/2011/03/13/english-grammar-lessons/). A really nice range of flash based grammar games for every conceivable language point! So thanks to Larry for finding it and thanks to... Continue Reading →
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 →
In many language schools it's probably a hard fought race between the photocopier and the guillotine as to which gets used most in any given day. Probably the photocopier, but the guillotine usually gets a fair work out. And then... Continue Reading →
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 →
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 →
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