News Quiz 2020 - Follow Up

Activities for reviewing and recycling the language  from News Quiz 2020 Image credits: Frankie Fouganthin  [CC BY-SA 4.0],  TenAsia  [CC BY...

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...

Explaining the difference between (near-) synonyms

I have recently received an email from a colleague, an EFL teacher in Israel, about how her students find it difficult differentiating betwe...

Summer teaching (had me a blast)

Photo by Cleo Phas August till about mid-October is the time of the year when I enjoy a bit of a lull at work and all my usual students (I t...

Does digital mean better?

What should I do with these? Photo by Tzvi Meller I’ve always envied people who can whip up a blog post straight after returning from – or ...

Highlighting lexical chunks with Diigo

Image by photosteve101   on  Flickr www.planetofsuccess.com/blog Diigo is a social bookmarking tool which allows you to save and access all ...