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ArticleFestivals: Pioneer Day
Learn about Pioneer Day, celebrated on July 24, in this interesting article.
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Festivals: Mother's Day
Many countries around the world celebrate Mother's Day. (Not all countries celebrate Mother's Day on the same day.) It is a time when children honour their mothers with cards, gifts and flowers. It is a day when families spend time together, and mothers can have a day of rest, whilst ...
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Festivals: Labor Day
On the first Monday of September the USA, Canada, Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands celebrate the creation of the labor movement. Labor unions existed in Canada in the early 1800s but legislation was adopted to make it illegal for workers to form unions, but groups of workers formed ...
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Lesson Share: Czech mate
In her final entry, Vicky turner talks about her mixed-ability and mixed-nationality class.
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Phrase of the week: to have a skeleton in the cupboard
Tim Bowen sheds some light on the origins and definition of the phrase to have a skeleton in the cupboard.
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Pronunciation skills: Destruction as creativity
Jonathan Marks offers a set of pronunciation tasks, with notes for teachers, that focus on reading aloud and text chunking.
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Lesson Share: Couch potato
In her final diary entry, Amthal Karim teaches a very excitable class adverbs of frequency and discusses whether there may be a couch potato or two among them.
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Lesson Share: Error correction
In her second diary entry, Laura McGinnis corrects her learners' sometimes hilarious errors and manages a class of teens.
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ArticleTeenagers: Writing: Correction
A composition returned to a student covered in red ink is very demotivating so here are some ways to make correction more positive.
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ArticleContinuous Professional Development
A discussion on ways to maintain continuous professional development.
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Teenagers: Writing: Consequences
Play a game of consequences to practise writing skills with your students.
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Grammar and vocabulary: learning vocabulary - connecting form and meaning
A discussion on learning vocabulary and the difficulties of connecting form and meaning.
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Professional development: teacher development and confidence
Advice and suggestions on how teachers can improve their personal development and confidence.
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Grammar: teaching conditionals
An article talking about confusion with conditionals and the phrasal verb to put off.
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Teenagers: Writing: Linking and structuring compositions
Using pictures to focus on a logical sequence of events.
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Grammar: two-syllable comparatives
An article discussing the usage of comparative and superlative forms of two-syllable adjectives.
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Grammar and vocabulary: teaching students collocations
A discussion and explanation of collocations and practical suggestions for teaching them.
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Professional development: collaborative teaching in EFL/ ESOL
An article about developing different mechanisms of peer support.
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Grammar and vocabulary: using dictionaries in the EFL/ESL classroom
Advice and discussion about using dictionaries in the EFL/ESL classroom.