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...