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Grammar lessons on the topic of Valentine's Day

Category: Cultural Training Topic: Festivals and Celebrations

Tips for making ESL Valentine's Day lessons more useful by adding language points like tenses, comparative, superlative, uncountable nouns, and relative clauses, including Valentine's Day grammar games.

How to teach Valentine's Day vocabulary

Category: Cultural Training Topic: Festivals and Celebrations

How to prepare for, present and practise vocabulary of Valentine's Day people, places and objects, including Valentine's Day vocabulary games, and activities that are adaptable for other festivals and celebrations.

Teaching grammar in Christmas lessons

Category: English Grammar Topic: Festivals and Celebrations

Linking the topic of Xmas to prepositions, adjectives, have (got) for possession, the grammar of nouns, demonstratives, there is/ are, possessive S, modals, defining relative clauses, and making questions

Teaching tenses in Christmas lessons

Category: English Grammar Topic: Festivals and Celebrations

Teaching past, present and future verb forms through the topic of Christmas and the New Year, including tense reviews and passive voice

Useful classroom language for moving around in class and action games

Category: Classroom Language Topic: General

This article provides a list of useful phrases for teachers to add action to language classes without the need for L1.

The big list of praising, encouraging and consoling classroom language

Category: Classroom Language Topic: General

This article provides a list of useful phrases for praising, encouraging, and consoling students in an English class. It emphasises positivity and offers suggestions for effective classroom communication.

Groups of three in EFL classes

Category: Teaching Tips Topic: General

This article explores how to use and benefit from the often awkward situation group work with three students, and provides ideas for activities such as roleplaying, conversational skills, and facilitation.

The big list of discipline classroom language

Category: Classroom Language Topic: General

This article provides a list of useful phrases for English language teachers to maintain control of a class without using L1. It covers various aspects of classroom management, including dealing with noise, listening, manners, safety and more.

Formal and informal language games

Category: Functional Language Topic: Functional Language

Fun intensive practice for both polite and friendly language

100 IELTS Speaking teaching tips

Category: English Language Examinations Topic: IELTS

The most important things to do in class when teaching IELTS Speaking.

100 IELTS Writing Task 2 teaching tips

Category: English Language Examinations Topic: IELTS

A big list of advice on how to teach IELTS Academic Writing Task 2

100 IELTS Writing Task 1 teaching tips

Category: English Language Examinations Topic: IELTS

A big list of vital tips on how to teach IELTS Academic Writing Task 1, in order of usefulness

How to teach senses vocabulary

Category: Vocabulary Topic: Vocabulary

How to teach words related to your five senses, with senses vocabulary games

How to teach like as a preposition

Category: English Grammar Topic: Prepositions

How to teach the preposition "like", including like as a preposition games

How to teach link verbs/copula verbs

Category: English Grammar Topic: Verbs and Tenses

How to teach verbs that take adjectives instead of adverbs, with linking verb games and other copula verb practice activities

How to teach like and be like

Category: English Grammar Topic: Prepositions

How to teach like as a verb and like as a preposition together

How to teach like, be like and look like

Category: English Grammar Topic: Prepositions

How to teach like as a verb and as a preposition with look and be - including like, be like and look like games

How to teach verbs of senses

Category: Vocabulary Topic: Verbs and Tenses

How to teach sense verbs/ verbs of sensation/ sensory verbs/ verbs of perception, including look like, smell like, etc and verbs of senses games

How to teach consonant clusters to EFL learners

Category: Teaching English Topic: Pronunciation

How to present and practise consonant blends, with consonant cluster games

How to teach defining relative clauses

Category: English Grammar Topic: Relative Clauses and Pronouns

How to present and practise restrictive relative clauses for saying which thing you are talking about, with typical errors and defining relative clauses games