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Debate: Is it possible to teach grammar?

Jim Scrivener has twenty-five years' teaching experience and if he's still unsure of how to teach grammar, is it possible at all?

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Debate: Are you a teacher of the future?

Lindsay Clandfield questions whether teachers are as in touch with technology as they should be, and suggest some valuable skills to learn.

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Debate: The end of reading? - Part one: What are we teaching, reading or English?

Scott Thornbury questions the relevance of reading activities and whether they just teach us what we already know.

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Debate: The end of reading? - Part two: Evidence from personal experience and research

In the second part of this debate, Scott Thornbury shares his personal experience of learning Spanish and digs into the research of L2 reading skills.

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Debate: The end of reading? - Part three: Some practical suggestions

In the third part of this debate, Scott Thornbury offers tips on how he believes L2 reading should be taught.

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Unreal debate

An American English worksheet to practise using the second conditional.

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Lesson Share: Debates: Where to sit

The class attempts to reach a consensus on where everyone should sit.

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Lesson Share: Grammar: Making instant decisions

Introduce 'will' or 'won't' for instant decisions; provide fluency practice using 'will' or 'won't'.

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Defamation

Students practise a range of different skills in relation to the topic of defamation.

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Phrasal verbs: Teaching phrasal verbs using equivalents and definitions

Many phrasal verbs can be said another way, and many learners of English tend to favour the non-phrasal verb equivalent. This often makes them sound formal. This lesson for intermediate-level students helps students learn – and practise – some phrasal verbs common in spoken English.

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Lesson Share: Team games: Vocabulary definitions game

This game is a good way of revising vocabulary from the previous lesson.

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True and false definitions

A British English worksheet to play a game in teams, guessing correct definitions and writing false definitions for words.

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True and false definitions

An American English worksheet to play a game in teams, guessing correct definitions and writing false definitions for words.

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Describe it

An American English worksheet to play a board game by describing and guessing words.

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Describe it

A British English worksheet to play a boardgame by describing and guessing words.

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Describing a process

Students produce a description of the production process or of part of the production process.

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IELTS: Describing tables

The aim of this exercise is to help students extract information from data presented in a table.

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IELTS: Describing a sequence of events or a process

The aim of this exercise is to help students describe a sequence of events in the past and describe a process using the present simple.

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Exams: Describing how something works

Preparing students for the writing part 1 of the Academic IELTS exam.

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IELTS: Describing maps - teacher's notes

The aim of this exercise is to help students describe maps.