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James
Feb 29, 20245 min read
Teaching Teens to Write for PET & FCE
How to practice the key language and structures for exam success through a series of fun speaking activities. This post is follows a...
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James
Jan 15, 20242 min read
Learning the past simple: silly stories with common verbs
A series of funny stories to help young learners understand, remember and use the most common English verbs in context.
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James
Mar 10, 20236 min read
Bridging the Gap: Linking Lessons to Your Students' World.
TESOL Conference, Madrid March 2023 Kids and teenagers often walk into our classrooms engaged in lively debate and eager to share their...
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James
Jan 5, 20225 min read
Teaching Functional Language with Music.
A syllabus of useful phrases which young learners can learn from the hooks of famous pop songs.
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James
Apr 8, 20215 min read
5 Songs to teach the 2nd and 3rd conditionals.
Lesson activities built around songs with conditional structures.
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James
Apr 3, 20214 min read
5 Activities Using Padlet Maps in Online Classes.
Padlet is a great free tool for encouraging students to work collaboratively in class and the map function is perfect for making writing...
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Dave
Mar 30, 20212 min read
Lights! Camera! Dialogue from the book!
Add a director to make dialogues from the book come alive Rationale Where I work we use the Super Minds series with our primary classes....
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James
Mar 28, 20212 min read
To be or being? That's the real question.
A recurring issue for EFL students is deciding between the infinitive or gerund verb form. It's a decision they face whenever they put...
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James
Mar 25, 20211 min read
Teaching Online: Using Google Slides with Videos.
A great way to do collaborative sorting activities with images online.
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James
Mar 2, 20213 min read
Spelling: Vowel Sounds and Pronunciation
How to help students recognise phonology and word stress from spelling (and vice versa!).
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