Traditional end-of-year news quiz for the first lesson of the new year Photo by Katherine Cheng [CC BY-ND 2.0] via Flickr  Just as I...

I first mentioned Quizlet in a blog post in 2013 . Over the past six years it has become a staple in many EFL/ESL classrooms. These days whe...

CUP booth at IATEFL Poland in Wroclaw (September 2018) Can you spot my book? This is just a quick update. I know it seems like I haven...

Activities for reviewing lexis from News Quiz 2018 Image credits: John Bauld   flic.kr/p/McsiQi [CC BY 2.0]; Alisdare Hickson flic.kr/...

Photo by KRIS AUS67 on Flickr  [CC BY 2.0] Although I haven't been a very active blogger this year - but check my posts on the CUP...

'The sun rises in the east' - a commonly used example of the Present Simple Photo by @CliveSir via  ELTpics  on Flickr In a re...

Photo by Hana Ticha via eltpics on Flickr A friend of mine has mastered English - which is attested by a CPE certificate - by looking...

Activities for reviewing the language from News Quiz 2017 Collage made with photos by www.kremlin.ru [CC BY 4.0],  Beyoncé ( @bey...

Image source: Billboard Not too many celebrity deaths this year, but there is a variety of science, sport, celebrity gossip and, inevi...

or why I've stopped teaching them (and why you shouldn't bother with them either) Photo by Emma Newman Segev via ELTpics on F...

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...