News Quiz 2019 - Follow Up
Image credits: Frankie Fouganthin ; Milliped ; SounderBruce ; under Creative Commons license [CC BY-SA 4.0] Activities for reviewing lexis f...
News Quiz 2019
Traditional end-of-year news quiz for the first lesson of the new year Photo by Katherine Cheng [CC BY-ND 2.0] via Flickr Just as I finish...
Present Simple or Hard Present ?
'The sun rises in the east' - a commonly used example of the Present Simple Photo by @CliveSir via ELTpics on Flickr In a recent d...
The state of stative verbs
or why I've stopped teaching them (and why you shouldn't bother with them either) Photo by Emma Newman Segev via ELTpics on Flickr ...
The double life of the asterisk sign
A small glyph with lots of functions An article in Time magazine entitled The History of #—and 6 Other Symbols that Rule Twitter and the Web...
Be like Bill for grammar (and vocabulary) practice
The third person singular of the Present Simple tense is known to be particularly problematic for learners and when the "Be Like Bill...
Closely connected
Photo by Sudhamshu Hebbar on Flickr [CC BY 2.0] An article written by the British linguist Vyvyan Evans entitled “Language Instinct is a My...
News Quiz 2013 - Vocabulary
Images by Tim Evanson , Gene Hunt & Alex Alishevskikh via Flickr As usual, as a follow up to the traditional end-of-year news quiz,...
We are lexically indebted to him
Image source: www.willis-elt.co.uk I opened my Facebook yesterday morning and was saddened to see Chia Suan Chong’s post about the passing o...
The highway to fluency and a roundabout way to grammar
Photo by @GoldsteinBen via eltpics on Flickr A second lesson with two new pre-intermediate (A2) students (I usually put my private student...
It doesn't matter
Photo by Victoria Boobyer via eltpics Do your students often say "it's depend..." or things like "it's not cost mu...
SLA research: still in the shackles of traditional grammar?
Second Language Acquisition ( SLA ) research also needs a lexical revolution to free itself from the shackles of grammar tyranny. Rant aler...