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Pronunciation can be tricky for our learners and so it is helpful to point our related rules when they apply. Pronunciation of the regular past simple endings can be problematic…

Teaching reading in an English as a Foreign Language classroom can be tricky. You are not only asking your students to respond to the text as whole i.e. in terms…

There is so much information out there about the world of Teaching English as a Foreign Language that it can be difficult to know what to believe. But there are…

Learning your first language is not a conscious decision. As a baby, you are exposed to language from all different sources and you are able to acquire language skills in…

We all know that learning a foreign language is hard, but for some reason learning English as a Foreign Language seems to be more difficult than other languages. Obviously for…

We all know that sinking feeling when we realise we still have five more minutes before before the end of the class and our activity has just finished. Or that…

Would you be able to explain how it’s possible to make a strong coffee but not a powerful coffee? Why do we say a heavy suitcase, but also heavy traffic…

Exhausted. Boiling. Starving. These are just three examples of extreme adjectives. We are all familiar with adjectives and the fact that they are used to describe nouns, but extreme adjectives…

Dogme is undoubtedly a very controversial teaching method, but it has gained a lot of support in recent years. It has its fair share of critics and it still manages…