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Online Teaching Tool: Kubbu


This website has the potential to be an invaluable online teaching tool and is worth checking out! I only came across this the other day, but they've been around for a while and further research reveals that Larry Ferlazzo mentions this... Continue Reading →

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 →

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 →

Dependent Prepositions


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 →

The Jumbler


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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 →

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