Not everyone can cook, but we all love food. It is a perfect conversation topic and even the shy students usually come out of their shells (seafood pun) when you ask them about their favourite food. Food is everywhere now, popular TV shows made home cooking fashionable, food blogs with…
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ESL Role Play Worksheet: Travel/Holidays
There is no such thing as enough role play activities and worksheets! I’ve recently gone over Travel vocabulary with my Intermediate and Upper Intermediate students and I love doing these speaking activities at the end of the lesson. In my previous article, I included my own version of the Taboo card game on the…
ESL Games
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3 Board Games You Can Use In The Classroom.
I love playing games. My students love playing games. You can learn a lot by playing games and it is so much fun. It is a total win-win and what is best, it doesn’t require any preparation. You just grab the game and off you go, revising vocabulary, improving communication…
Origin of words
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Those Cute Little Pugs Used To Be Harlots.
These little fellows are adorable monkeys indeed. At least that was the meaning of the word in the 17th century, and it also meant harlot for some time. Miniature dog came to use only in the mid 18th century.
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Grammar isn’t that boring as it may seem.
Do you want to cast spells like Harry Potter? You don’t even need a wand. All you need is proper grammar!
From the classroom
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5 Apps To Learn English Without Knowing It
There are 2.2 million apps in Android store and 2 million in Apple’s App store. I’m sure a huge number of those apps is useles, but you can also find there plenty of helpful, entertaining of educative apps. Here’s a simple infographic of 5 apps I’ve been using with my…
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7 Reasons Why Your Lessons Should Be Fun
Are language lessons or any lessons even supposed to be fun? It is all about learning, hard work, discipline, focus, determination. How can all that be fun? Simple. You, the teacher, should love your job, enjoy working with people and bring life into the dull stereotypes of a boring lesson. Why…