Copernicus Gets Diplomatic
Copernicus Gets Diplomatic When the first secretary-general of the United Nations (Trygve Lie, a Norwegian) handed over to his successor (Dag Hammarskjöld, a Swede) he said, “Welcome to the most […]
Critical Thinking and English Language Teaching Pt. 1
Critical Thinking And English Language Teaching Pt. 1 Critical thinking has been a buzzword for some time now. In fact, judging by the research, it has been a buzzword for […]
Activities For The Questions In Students Heads
Activities for the Questions in Students’ Heads When I was working on my first self-study book for students, I was surprised to find that writing it was at least as […]
Copernicus Goes To Baghdad (Via Beirut and Baku)
Copernicus Goes To Baghdad (Via Beirut and Baku) “If Paul Klee took a line for a walk, then Zaha took the surfaces that were driven by that line out for […]
10 Fun Post-Reading Activities
I recently wrote a post on 10 useful pre-reading activities, so I thought I would follow this up with a blog post about activities to do after reading. What are […]
The Lexical Approach – A Beginners’ Guide
The Lexical Approach – A beginners Guide The term “teaching lexically” was coined by Hugh Dellar and Andrew Walkley, coursebook writers (Innovations, Outcomes) and teacher trainers (LexicalLab), who have proudly taken over from the […]
ESL Exam Questions and How to Write Them
ESL Exam Questions and How to Write Them I have lost track of the number of times I have heard students complain that the exam was too ‘tough’ or that […]
Implementing The Lexical Approach
Implementing the Lexical Approach Nowadays nobody denies the importance of teaching ready-made phrases or chunks. They form the basis of the lexical approach. There are also other words for chunks […]
A look at Online English Teaching
A look at Online English Teaching Starting an online English teaching business is an exciting venture. And with over 1.5 billion learners out there, it is a potentially lucrative initiative. […]
Collocations Lesson – How to Teach
Collocations Lesson – How to Teach In my previous article for EFLmagazine.com, Taking a Chunk out of Vocabulary: Using Collocations (2015), I examined what collocation is and the benefits of […]