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Imaginative materials: teaching with newspapers

Teachers rarely have access to whole class sets of newspapers. Here are six ideas for things you can do using a single copy of a newspaper.

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Imaginative materials: treasure hunting

How could you create an exciting treasure hunt puzzle for your students? Here are ideas for two kinds of game – a basic chain of clues and letterboxing.

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Lesson Share: Teenagers: Sherlock Holmes

A simple and fun exercise to get students moving and practise questions.

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Something strange happened on the way to…

An American English worksheet to create a story by inventing answers to questions and writing them down.

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Methodology: individualizing in groups

An article offering suggestions and advice on how to individualize learning within a group.

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Lesson Share: Vocabulary: Grammar scattergories

In this exercise students come up with different words for grammar categories.

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Grammar: 'unless' and 'if'

An article explaining the difference in meaning between if and unless in conditional sentences.

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Grammar: 'them' and 'they'

An explanation of the use of them and they in different contexts.

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Grammar: modal verbs may and might

An article explaining the difference between the modal verbs may and might.

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Grammar: word order in passive questions

An article offering an explanation and teaching suggestions on word order in passive questions.

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Grammar: the verb 'to be'

A discussion answer to the question "what is the verb 'to be'?"

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Grammar: regular and irregular verbs

Practical suggestions for teaching regular and irregular verbs.

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Grammar: teaching the modals 'ought to', 'should', 'must' and 'have to'.

Suggestions for teaching the modals ought to, should, must and have to when talking about suggestion or advice.

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Grammar: reporting verb patterns

A discussion and teaching suggestions for reporting verb patterns.

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Methodology: the grammar translation method

A discussion on the use of the grammar translation method in English teaching.

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Grammar and vocabulary: teaching and learning idioms

A discussion and useful techniques for learning and teaching idioms.

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Grammar: reviewing the present simple

Present simple for habits and routines is a frequently taught item. Here are some new ways of teaching these familiar items.

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Skills: graded readers

Reading a novel is essentially a private, personal activity – but it can still provide useful classroom work . Here are some ideas for working with graded readers in class.

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I was going to, but…

An American English worksheet to invent sentences using picture cards as cues.

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General: using translation

There is a great deal of useful awareness-raising when learners compare English with their own tongue. Here are four great translation games - and they don’t even require you to speak the other language!