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Category Archives: grammar
A Direct TV commercial to teach narrative tenses
Coming back to post about a commercial (or rather, a series of commercials) that can be used as a tool to train (or refresh) narrative tenses. The good thing about this commercial is that it describs and follows a chain … Continue reading
Posted in authentic materials, grammar, intermediate, lesson starters, teaching higher levels, useful links
Tagged commercials, commercials for ESL, EFL, ELT, English, English as a foreign or second language, fun activities, grammar, intermediate, minimal preparation, narrative tenses, one-to-one, storytelling, upper-intermediate, Video
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Used to and other patterns – rethought and put into practice
In the morning today I had a chance to see how my substitution table from the previous post worked. I knew my student would still be struggling with all the 4 patters (get used to, be used to, used to, … Continue reading
Posted in authentic materials, grammar, grammar games, teaching higher levels, vocabulary
Tagged get used to, grammar, one-to-one, patterns, used to
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a more personalised approach to ING and TO
The gerund vs infinitive grammar has always seemed quite tricky for teaching to me: I have always felt there wasn’t enough really good materials, especially for the one-to-one situation. Of course there are all kinds of gap-fills and contextualised gap-fills (like … Continue reading
Posted in grammar, grammar games, speaking, teaching higher levels
Tagged EFL, ELT, English as a foreign or second language, English as a second or foreign language, English language, fluency activity, Gerund, gerund and infinitive, grammar, Infinitive, lesson starter, personalized grammar
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preparing for a grammar lesson (refreshing passive voice in an applicable way)
Last time I checked, there were not too many materials for teaching Passive. I mean, for teaching Passive adequately, and in a practical and possible-to-take-out-of-the-class manner. Somehow, speaking about animals, doing a geography quiz or discussing a process of coins … Continue reading
my favourite ways of revisiting vocabulary
I’ve recently come back to work! yes, for 9 month I was off work – at least I wasn’t teaching English to real people, that is. I was a blogger and materials writer. But now 2 times a week I … Continue reading
Posted in Business English, grammar, intermediate, lesson plans, lesson starters, lists, materials writing, Professional development, teaching higher levels, teaching lower levels, vocabulary
Tagged collocations, ELT, ESL, lesson plan, lesson starter, Skype, speaking, student, teaching English, teaching vocabulary, ways oа teaching vocabulary
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superlatives for elementary
A nice short speaking activity on superlatives! To practice phrases like “the best book/ the most interesting film/ the most difficult in a conversational manner, at an elementary level. for me and my group it work as a good finalising … Continue reading
Posted in grammar, grammar games, lesson plans, lesson starters, materials writing, teaching lower levels
Tagged Adjective, adjectives, comparatives, elementary, ELT, ESL, speaking, Superlative, superlatives
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tense revision jigsaw puzzle – what it looks like
Here are some pictures to illustrate my favourite tense revision puzzle. very easy – you just give a “skeleton” and a pile of cards to your students to put together. And then you give a full copy to compare with … Continue reading
Mistakes? Good!
This is a post about mistakes. Not about mistake/ error correction, not about mistakes being a sign of learning, but about benefitting from mistakes. Or rather, about how to use your learners’ mistake as learning (and teaching) material. What you … Continue reading
here is a nice small activity on Present Simple vs Present Continuous for an elementary class, a kind of activity that will help you to refresh the students’ knowledge and once again let them practise (might be good to finalise … Continue reading
A tense revision jigsaw puzzle
I’d like to share with you one of my favourites: a puzzle on English tenses system. Works great with men, or at least with people who have analytical mindset, and with people who appreciate clear structures. It’s very simple – … Continue reading
Posted in grammar, grammar games, lesson plans, lesson starters, materials writing
Tagged english tenses, grammar, grammar games, printable worksheets, Worksheet
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