Photo by Marc Nozell via Flickr [ CC BY 2.0 ] One of the hottest news this week has been Melania Trumps’ allegedly plagiarized speech. Why...
The L in ELT
A report from the International ETAI Conference "Engage Enhance Energize" which took place in Ashkelon, Israel, between 4 and 6 Ju...
Those who can't
I'm a ________ (1) teacher of English (what has recently become a bad word has been blanked out as to not offend anyone). As readers ma...
Criticism of the Lexical Approach
"All chunks and no pineapple?" Image by Andrew Malone via Flickr [ CC BY 2.0 ] Writing an essay or working on a paper on the Lexi...
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&q...
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 ...
News quiz 2015
Traditional end-of-year news quiz for the first lesson of the new year The dress which went viral To tell the truth, I almost broke the trad...
10 things you can do with "10 things you didn't know last week"
10 things you didn't know last week is a digest of news snippets published every Friday on the BBC website. You can find it in a sectio...
Colligation and a bottom-up approach to grammar
Summary of Hugh Dellar's IATEFL webinar Following the patterns: colligation and the necessity of a bottom-up approach to grammar - Sept...
The return of translation: opportunities and pitfalls
For most of the 20th century, there was a deep-rooted tradition in the ELT, which dates back to the Direct Method, that L1 in the classroom ...
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