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. […]
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 […]
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. […]