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 […]
How to Write Exam Questions for EFL Students
How to Write Exam Questions for EFL Students 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 […]
Will And The Five P’s
Will And The Five P’s The present simple is, on the whole, pretty simple. The rules for when to use it and when not to use it are fairly clear-cut […]