News Quiz 2018 - Follow Up

Activities for reviewing lexis from News Quiz 2018 Image credits: John Bauld   flic.kr/p/McsiQi [CC BY 2.0]; Alisdare Hickson flic.kr/p/24W...

News Quiz 2017 - Follow Up

Activities for reviewing the language from News Quiz 2017 Collage made with photos by www.kremlin.ru [CC BY 4.0],  BeyoncĂ© ( @beyonce )  on...

News quiz 2015 - Follow up

Activities for reviewing lexis from News Quiz 2015 Photo by  Dustpuppy72  via Flickr  [ CC BY-NC-ND  2.0] Here's the promised follow up ...

Lexical activities united

This is a quick post that consolidates some activities for teaching collocations and chunks that I’ve posted on this blog and elsewhere, spe...

News quiz 2014 - Follow up

Activities for reviewing language (vocabulary and some grammar) from News Quiz 2014 Image by DLR   via Wikimedia Commons [ CC BY 3.0 de ] As...

On (and off) the wall vocabulary activities

I often make students (and teachers I work with) get out of their seats. I think movement in the classroom is important whether you believe ...

Top 3 web tools of 2013

As the year draws to a close it’s time for various top 10, 20 etc lists. I am going to limit myself to 3 and share the web tools that have u...

Teaching vocabulary out of context: conclusions

This follows on my earlier post Teaching vocabulary out of context: is it worth the time? About a month ago I blogged about my mini action r...

Spent but enriched

In this activity, students play an online digital game (in pairs or alone at home) and then focus on the lexis related to money. I've ne...

News Quiz 2011 - Follow Up

Activities for recycling lexis from last week's end-of-year quiz  So here we are in 2012... Come to think of it, it's funny that we ...

Teaching vocabulary out of context: is it worth the time?

Those of you who have been to my workshops or read my articles on TeachingEnglish  are perhaps surprised why someone who advocates teaching ...

Cycles of Recycling: Cycle 2

Extending students' word knowledge with Collocation forks If the previous cycle used collocations that students have come across in tex...