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Big numbers!
Lots of our students have problems with big numbers. Sometimes they don’t know where to say ‘and’. Sometimes they confuse numbers like ‘sixteen’ and ‘sixty’. In this lesson students revise big numbers...
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Pairwork: tai chi classes
This is a simple pairwork activity that can be used with low level groups to provide practice in the present simple question form – What does he/she do on…?, days of the week, times and leisure actread...
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Writing: mini things
Sometimes when we ask students to write a composition they spend very little time at the important editing stage. In this lesson students will do a couple of ‘short writing’ activities with the focus...
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Revisiting texts
We often encourage our students to infer words from the context as they read and, as a result, they fail to notice useful lexis in the texts we use.This is especially true in case of chunks consisting...
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Lexical notebooks or vocabulary cards?
Few would doubt that students should leave a lesson with some kind of transcript of it: be it a notebook or, if technology allows, pages from an Interactive WhiteBoard (IWB) emailed to your students –...
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Superlative noughts and crosses
I like to use this activity to promote the use of the superlative form. It utilises a well-known game that students find stimulating and fun to play.read more
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Testing - why bother?
This article will ask why we test learners of English. Before I start, let's get some terminology straight. I'm not talking about exams. We as a society need exams.read more
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Teaching without a coursebook
Whether you're starting with a new class or just changing direction a little the decision of how to structure a course without a coursebook can sometimes be difficult for a new or even experienced...
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Using songs in the classroom
This is from a song workshop I gave some time ago. Take care with the copyright! Songs can be exploited in many ways:read more
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Global English and the teaching of pronunciation
The emergence of so many different kinds (or 'varieties') of international English has caused a number of linguists to question the use of native speaker pronunciation models in the teaching of...
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Yesterday
In this lesson students practise forming, asking and answering ‘wh’ questions in the past tense. They play two games and do a mingling activity.read more
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Three of a kind?
Use this activity to practice the use of comparatives and superlatives and to introduce more complex ways of comparison.As a sub aim it also revises various lexical sets depending on the things to be...
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