If you're not familiar with it, the "just a minute" game requires learners to speak on a topic for one minute, without hesitation, deviation or repetition. It's based on the BBC Radio 4 panel game of the same name. Their... 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 →
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 →
… 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 →
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 →
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