A small glyph with lots of functions An article in TIME magazine entitled The History of #—and 6 Other Symbols that Rule Twitter and the...

Going back to school: some ideas for your first lesson(s)   It’s September, the time when many are heading back to school (in the North...

Photo by Christina Martidou via ELTpics on Flickr How do you explain the notion of collocation to your students?  Apart from using thi...

A report from the 24th TESOL Macedonia-Thrace convention, which took place in Thessaloniki on 11-12 February Earlier this month I had ...

Photo by iphonedigital via Flickr  flic.kr/p/J6zv2j [CC BY-SA 2.0] Activities for reviewing the language from News Quiz 2016 Like...

Photos by  Chatham House  [CC BY 2.0],  Marie Lan-Nguyen  [CC BY 2.0],  wowser  [CC BY-BC 2.0] on Flickr There has been an unusually h...

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

Based on Adele's song from her third album 25 , this  activity  can be used with Intermediate level and up. The main focus is listening ...

Photo by  Marc Nozell  via Flickr [ CC BY 2.0 ] One of the hottest news this week has been Melania Trumps’ allegedly plagiarized sp...

A report from the International ETAI Conference "Engage Enhance Energize" which took place in Ashkelon, Israel, between 4 and 6...

I'm a ________ (1) teacher of English (what has recently become a bad word has been blanked out as to not offend anyone). As readers ma...

"All chunks and no pineapple?" Image by Andrew Malone via Flickr [ CC BY 2.0 ] Writing an essay or working on a paper on the...

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...

Traditional end-of-year news quiz for the first lesson of the new year The dress which went viral To tell the truth, I almost broke th...

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...

Summary of Hugh Dellar's IATEFL webinar Following the patterns: colligation and the necessity of a bottom-up approach to grammar  - Sep...

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...

Public Domain image Last week I was involved in another Train the Trainer course (Summer School) organised by the British Council in par...

This is a quick post that consolidates some activities for teaching collocations and chunks that I’ve posted on this blog and elsewhere, sp...

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 ] ...