Extensive Reading Strategies to Get Students Reading
Extensive Reading Strategies to Get Students Reading Extensive reading has been the focus of a great deal of academic attention since Bamford and Day first published their ground-breaking work, ‘Extensive […]
Teaching English in Uruguay: A Brief Guide
Teaching English in Uruguay: My Experience and Tips Uruguay is a great place to visit, study, work, and live. Not only is it a country with quite an open-minded population, […]
Teaching Resources for ESL Teachers – A Guide
Teaching Resources for ESL Teachers – A Guide Since I can remember, I’ve been obsessed with building my teaching library. A library can be many things — a place of […]
Songs to Teach English – The Beatles
Songs to Teach English – The Beatles Recent surveys, such as Kaplan (2013) , have shown that, in the ELT classroom, music is the most popularly used form of all media types […]
Teach English with Dvolver
Teach English with Dvolver When I started my English-teaching career in South Korea, my Korean co-teacher discovered an interesting website from a teacher-training workshop she attended. The website is called […]
Lead-Ins in Your Classroom – Some Practical Ideas
Some Ideas for Using Lead-Ins in Your Classroom Do you ever create your own lead-ins? Open most coursebooks and you will notice that new sections often start with one or […]
Some Online Resources for Teaching English
Online Resources for Teaching English First, there was a delay. Then, there was a decision to go online for two weeks. Now, it looks like I may never actually meet […]
Teaching Low-Level Learners ESL Using Authentic Materials
Teaching Low Level Learners ESL Using Authentic Materials A 1-2-1 student of mine has just passed his (Hungarian B2 CEFR level) matura exam, in which he got 85%. What is […]
Teach English with Pictures
Teach English with Pictures Close your eyes and imagine you’re holding a glass of exquisite wine, which is glinting ruby, citrine or garnet. Or a glass of water, crystalline, mountain […]
Subject Raising in English Grammar
Subject Raising: Do You Happen To Know? Subject raising is my all-time favourite English grammar structure. It’s one of the craziest things you can do in English, and yet it’s […]