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Category Archives: Vocabulary
Could SEO make strong collocations stronger?
When I was updating the post below listing all and every ELT publisher, I also changed its name from “Full list of ELT publishers” to “Complete list of ELT publishers” as it seemed something that people would be very slightly … Continue reading
Collocations/ chunks page much expanded
An article full of game ideas coming soonish, but in the meantime you’ll have to make do with 15 worksheets, two online games and three articles: Collocations/ chunks games, worksheets and teaching tips
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Olympics mascots lesson
A great lesson for students who are interested in the Olympics but not necessarily the actual sport. The two things that I did were: – Take in a mix of real and fake/ joke Olympics mascots for them to work out which are which. … Continue reading
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New articles on teaching English to adults and kids July 2012
Been a while since I did one of these posts, so quite a long list this time. Young learners Adding useful language to craftwork activities – LINK FIXED Fun food lessons for kids – LINK FIXED Teaching shapes to EFL kids – LINK … Continue reading
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Food for young learners page much much much expanded
It had three rather boring links. Now it has about thirty, with stories, songs, worksheets, flashcards and all kinds of other fun and games: Food worksheets, games, songs and stories for young learners Article on the topic also coming up soon.
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More Olympics worksheets and teaching ideas
Here’s the new stuff: Article Olympics Ideas Two: Beyond sports Worksheets General meanings of sporting words Sports idioms Improving the Olympics Debates on the topic of sport Explaining sports speaking game Mini-presentations on the topic of sport Olympics statistics pairwork … Continue reading
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Teaching English for sport/ English through sport
As there’s this little thing which I will be calling the Lundun ‘Lympics* coming up, have been working on some ideas for it. Part one is this article, including how to link almost any grammar point in with it: How … Continue reading
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My sports worksheets
Someone tells me there is some kind of sports event happening soon, so thought I may as well put links to all my relevant materials in one place. A mix of stuff originally used with young learners and adults – … Continue reading
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PC in EFL
Wrote an article a while ago about politically correct language in the classroom (below), and have been debating the topic myself recently wondering how I can avoid using the words I’m trying to tell them not to use while doing … Continue reading
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