Traditional end-of-year news quiz for the first lesson of the new year Image by Fulton County Sheriff's Office, State of Georgia via Wi...

  Penny Ur shares research she finds interesting at IATEFL 2023 Penny Ur posting for photos with fans after her IATEFL talk (19.4.23) This i...

  A lesson based on Janine di Giovanni's TED talk Image source: TED.com [Fair use] I came across this talk, which is shorter than usual ...

Photos of the Week section in The Atlantic Although the lockdown restrictions are gradually being eased in many countries, remote teac...

One of my students showed her vocabulary (and grammar) notebook to her private tutor, who was surprised at the way new vocabulary was record...

The third person singular of the Present Simple tense is known to be particularly problematic for learners and when the "Be Like Bill...

Activities for reviewing lexis from News Quiz 2015 Photo by  Dustpuppy72  via Flickr  [ CC BY-NC-ND  2.0] Here's the promis...

10 things you didn't know last week is a digest of news snippets published every Friday on the BBC website. You can find it in a sectio...

For most of the 20th century, there was a deep-rooted tradition in the ELT, which dates back to the Direct Method, that L1 in the classro...

Eighteen containers in assorted shapes and sizes on display in the corner of the room. Fourteen EFL teachers organized in small groups ...

I often make students (and teachers I work with) get out of their seats. I think movement in the classroom is important whether you believ...

Video is often used in the EFL classroom for listening comprehension activities, facilitating discussions and, of course, language work. But...

Image by Peter Megyeri on Flickr (CC BY 2.0) My interest in experimental practice was piqued at the TESOL France’s last annual colloqu...

Images by Tim Evanson ,   Gene  Hunt &  Alex Alishevskikh  via Flickr As usual, as a follow up to the traditional end-of-year new...

Traditional quiz for your first lesson in 2014 By lasanta.com.ec  via Flickr [CC BY 2.0] For some reason I had a hard time coming up ...

As the year draws to a close it’s time for various top 10, 20 etc lists. I am going to limit myself to 3 and share the web tools that ha...

Image source: www.universalstudiosentertainment.com I use a lot of films in my teaching: not just occasional Youtube clips but full-len...

Image source: www.willis-elt.co.uk I opened my Facebook yesterday morning and was saddened to see Chia Suan Chong’s post about the pass...

By @eannegrenoble |  eltpics  on Flickr In the middle of the market where I go for my weekly vegetable shopping there is a stall wher...

Second Language Acquisition ( SLA ) research also needs a lexical revolution to free itself from the shackles of grammar tyranny.  Rant ale...