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Help with Homework


“Teacher No!”  “Teacher, I have three tests this week!” Chances are, you’ve probably experienced the chorus of protest and dismay as you blithely announce the homework task of the day.  Or alternatively as you ask your learners to present the... Continue Reading →

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Giving Feedback – 20 ways to do it!


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 →

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Twenty-Six different ways to do Gapfills / Cloze tasks


UPDATED - from fifteen to twenty six!  Many thanks to all those who contributed their ideas! Does what it says on the tin!  As part of a recent seminar -  I have collected, invented, developed and stolen these fifteen alternatives... Continue Reading →

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efl-resource.com » Language activities with Wordle and word clouds


If you haven't come across wordle yet then it's worth taking a look.  But what to do with it? Anna Pires of IH Braga gave a seminar on using wordle with classes about a year ago, but fortunately, you don't... Continue Reading →

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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 →

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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 →

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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 →

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