Chris Ozog – Phil Wade Interviews
Chris Ozog – Phil Wade Interviews Chris Ożóg is a teacher, teacher trainer and writer, originally from Scotland but very rarely there now. He’s been involved in English Language Teaching […]
Promoting Learner Autonomy in One-to-One Lessons
Promoting Learner Autonomy in One-to-One Lessons Have you ever had the feeling that there’s not much left for you to do but watch your student’s rapid growth resulting from his […]
Grammatical Range and Accuracy – IELTS Speaking
Grammatical Range and Accuracy – IELTS Speaking Welcome back to my IELTS speaking series looking at the speaking grading criteria. If you haven’t read the previous part of this series on […]
Lexical Resource – IELTS Speaking
Lexical Resource IELTS Speaking Hi everyone, welcome to the third installment of our analysis of IELTS speaking grading criteria. In my last article, we looked Fluency and Coherence. If you haven’t […]
Collocations Activity – Scavenger Hunt
Collocations Activity – Scavenger Hunt Texts of different genres will have different distributions of collocations. This activity requires students to look through a text to find different types of collocations. […]
English Phrasal Verbs – Some Tips for Teaching Them
English Phrasal Verbs – Some Tips for Teaching Them English phrasal verbs can be a challenge to learn. Not only are there thousands of them, but most phrasal verbs have […]
Understanding IELTS and TOEFL Essay Rubrics
IELTS and TOEFL essay rubrics As teachers, it is helpful to use IELTS and TOEFL essay rubrics to guide our students to get top scores on their independent essays. However, sometimes […]
Cubing: Recharging the Power of Brainstorming
“My family had to escape from our country because of it.” My EAP (English for Academic Purposes) class had ‘cubed’ the lesson topic – describing, comparing, analysing, arguing, telling a […]
Academic English Collocations: ColloCaid
Academic English Collocations: ColloCaid Teachers, editors, proof-readers, or indeed anyone who regularly reviews texts can confirm that many writers struggle when choosing word combinations which sound natural. In general, choosing […]
Teaching Tracks: Top Ten
Teaching Tracks: Book Review: Chris Walklett, I first came across Chris Walklett’s work in the academic presentations and conference appearances he made in the years leading up to this publication. […]