Teaching Collocations – Best Approaches for Success
Teaching Collocations – Best Approaches for Success Teaching vocabulary in the ESL/EFL classroom can sometimes excite or it can sometimes frustrate teachers. In the scope of vocabulary learning, are there […]
ESL Phrasal Verbs Exercises
ESL Phrasal Verbs Exercises Phrasal verbs are often confusing for students, due to their idiomatic nature. Unfortunately, there is no quick formula for students to learn and understand them. There […]
Fluency MC – Teaching Phrasal Verbs with Rap
Fluency MC – Teaching Phrasal Verbs with Rap There is virtually no limit to the number of communicative activities you can do with a music video, both in and out of […]
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 […]
Teaching Phrasal Verbs – Lesson Planning
Teaching Phrasal Verbs – Lesson Planning Firstly, let me explain the thinking behind the teaching phrasal verbs (GA). Over the last forty years, I have become increasingly dissatisfied with conventional […]
Teach Phrasal Verbs – The Global Approach
Teach Phrasal Verbs – The Global Approach Teachers and learners tend to perceive Phrasal Verbs as difficult to learn, particularly as they seem to have so many alternative meanings, yet […]
The Problem with Cambridge English Exams
General-View (eflmagazine.com) indicate a candidate’s competency in the contexts in which they need to use the language. Nevertheless, general proficiency is reflected more or less accurately by different types of […]
Teaching Idioms and Phrasal Verbs a Different Way
Teaching Idioms and Phrasal Verbs a Different Way You sit down to plan your upcoming English lesson at home – with a nice cup of tea and some biscuits. You […]
My DELTA Diary: Module 2 Intensive Course
by Paul Finnerty I’ve been teaching English for about seven years on and off and have worked in Brazil, Colombia, Portugal and Italy in that time. To be honest, I […]