All Upper-Intermediate articles – Page 76
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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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ArticleGrammar 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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Methodology: individualizing in groups
An article offering suggestions and advice on how to individualize learning within a group.
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How's your haggling?
A British English worksheet to interview a partner using a questionnaire, and find out how good they are at haggling
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Reading lesson plans: Hair
Students complete a series of activities based on a text about hair.
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Something strange happened on the way to…
A British English worksheet to create a story by inventing answers to questions and writing them down.
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ArticleHappy New Year!
Three activities suitable for your first classes of the New Year, or if you are starting a new course in January.
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Understanding paragraph headings
Help students to prepare for the academic reading component of the IELTS exam.
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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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Pronunciation skills: How many syllables?
This lesson by Jonathan Marks focuses on plural nouns and 3rd person singular verbs which are spelt with the ending -es. It helps students to develop an awareness of when this ending represents an additional syllable (e.g. age / ages) and when it doesn't (e.g. behave / behaves).
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ArticleImaginative 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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IELTS reading - worksheet
Activities and suggestions to help students deal with the reading component of the exam.
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IELTS reading - teacher's notes
Activities and suggestions to help students deal with the reading component of the exam.
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IELTS: Interpreting maps - teacher's notes
Help students to prepare for Task 1 in the academic writing component of the IELTS exam.
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Imaginative materials: Texting
Do you get annoyed when your students concentrate on using their mobile phones to text each other rather than focusing on the lesson? Here are five ideas for exploiting text messaging in class.