Rod Ellis presenting While in Toronto for TESOL 2015 convention  last month, I also attended - for the first time - the AAAL (Americ...

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

Activities for reviewing language (vocabulary and some grammar) from News Quiz 2014 Image by DLR   via Wikimedia Commons [ CC BY 3.0 ...

Traditional lexically-enriched end-of-year news quiz for the first lesson of the new year By Anthony Quintano  via Flickr [ CC BY 2.0 ] ...

Photo by Sudhamshu Hebbar on Flickr [CC BY 2.0] An article written by the British linguist Vyvyan Evans entitled “Language Instinct i...

"Perform surgery" or "carry out surgery"? Photo by Austin Samaritans  via Flickr [CC BY-SA 2.O] What kind of collo...

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...

Not a proper blog post this time but just a list of references and useful links I have compiled for a series of workshops I have been giving...

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...

Image by @sandymillin via eltpics on Flickr For the first time since it was last held in Harrogate (2010), I didn’t go to the annual I...

Photo by Tzvi Meller As much as it seems counter-intuitive, teaching new vocabulary in semantic sets (e.g. jobs: doctor, teacher, lawye...

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...

In response to the blog tag challenge By Masachi Mochida via Flickr [CC BY-NC-ND 2.0] I’ve been tagged. Twice. In a blog challen...

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

A summary of the TESOL France’s  32nd annual colloquium  which took place in Paris between 22 and 24 November 2013. ELT conferences oft...

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 jjpacres  via Flickr [CC BY-NC-ND 2.0] I often cite research in my talks so in this series of posts I would like to share some intere...

Photo by @GoldsteinBen via eltpics on Flickr A second lesson with two new pre-intermediate (A2) students (I usually put my private ...

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

One of the pleasures of teaching lexically is when you see your students starting to incorporate i nto their speech and writing  lexical ch...

Penny Ur was awarded an OBE (Officer of the Order of the British Empire ) for services to English Language Teaching earlier this year and a...