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Jigsaw Activities In The EFL Classroom

Once you have spent a couple of months teaching English as a foreign language and have some experience under your belt, you may soon feel a bit of deja vu in the classroom. This is not your fault and it…

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Sometimes our classrooms can seem like anything but English language learning classrooms. Even though our students need to learn English – that’s why they’re there in the first place! –…

How Learning Circles Can Benefit EFL Learners

18th April 2018

If you think teaching English as a foreign language is all about teaching lessons, then you’ve got another thing coming. Though of course being in the classroom and teaching lessons…

How To Write A Good EFL Test

10th April 2018

We’ve spoken about collocations before and why they are useful for our learners. Now we need to look at different activities to teach collocations. Learning collocations is not easy so…

Six Activities To Teach Collocations In The EFL Classroom

9th April 2018

What makes Advanced learners Advanced learners is most notably their ability to use language naturally. What this means is producing language in lexical chunks which are appropriate and relevant for…

Collocations And Advanced Learners

6th April 2018

The number one reason our students come to our lessons is to learn how to communicate in English. For the most part, this means speaking. In order to become better…

Strategies To Encourage Speaking In The EFL Classroom

5th April 2018

One of the best tricks to have when you are an EFL teacher is to have a stash of activities up your sleeve for those moments when your lesson finishes…

Four Alternative Filler EFL Games

30th March 2018

If you have ever learned or tried to learn a foreign language you will probably remember trying to learn lists and lists of vocabulary items. Flashcards, sticky notes, parrot learning…

What Is Core Vocabulary And Why Does It Matter?

27th March 2018

Idiomatic language is a big part of English. A lot of what we say does not actually mean what we say (!), which means that it’s really important for our…

Useful English Idioms

26th March 2018

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