Going Video: Execution
As projects go, this one was a bit of a disaster. The plan was to create a set of videos about presentation skills. Yeah, this did not happen. That course … Continue reading
Presenting Structures: Grammar Surprises
Recently, I have been thinking about different strategies for presenting grammatical structures. It was also the topic of our October Trainers’ Meet-Up so I thought I would put a few … Continue reading
Lights, Camera, Action: Filming Articles
In this picture, you can see a car. The car is white. The car is next to a shop. Behind the white car, there are other cars. The sun is … Continue reading
Gerunds and Infinitives: Regret Killing the Chickens?
Gerunds and infinitives are tricky because there is no logic there, except for the preposition + gerund business. So here is a little something I did today with one of … Continue reading
The Past is Tricky: swim, swam, swum
Irregular verbs. The list is long and lots of repetition is required. I am quite into tiny little drama activities at the moment and decided to try something out with … Continue reading
Workshopping Grammar
I am writing above the Atlantic, on holiday but 9hrs is long time to sit on a plane and this seemed a perfect moment to write up my thoughts on … Continue reading
Flippin’ Future
Future is expressed in a multitude of ways in English. Many of my students, even at higher levels, tend to overuse will because they have learnt that will is future. … Continue reading
A, AN and THE: A Peer-Teaching Activity
English articles can be a bit of a nuisance. Having mostly worked with learners whose L1 has no system of these little pains in the neck, I have tried a … Continue reading
Stretching the Mind: Introducing a New Grammar Structure
Memorisation and rote learning have been a bit of taboo in language learning for a long time. They were seen as behaviorist ideas which viewed as form and habit, whereas … Continue reading
Are Our Pasts Perfect? – Teaching the Past Perfect
Meet my sister, the star of one of my lessons this week. Why is it that the past perfect tense always seems such a tricky thing to teach? I don’t … Continue reading
Learners Teaching Learners: Part 2 – What did the students think?
So in an effort to make my classroom more learner-centred (see my first post on this) and to show my students a different way of doing things, I got my … Continue reading
Learners Teaching Learners: Part 1
To begin with, it did make me feel like a lazy teacher. Like I was avoiding doing all the hard work. This was a one-semester course I taught about 18 … Continue reading
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