open cloze

Exam Classes: Gapless

Another really simple idea for all those use of english papers.... just remove the gaps. For exam classes this works with the following areas: FCE & CAE: Use of English Part One - multiple choice cloze Use of English Part... Continue Reading →

Friday 27 May 2011 1

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 →

Wednesday 23 March 2011 1

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 →

Tuesday 22 March 2011 16

FCE Use of English: Open Cloze

This is a lesson I've used a lot over the years - it's designed for use with FCE classes, but can easily be adapted to a CAE group. The main idea behind the lesson is to try and introduce a... Continue Reading →

Tuesday 8 February 2011 0