All Word formation articles

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Grammar Cards: Conditionals

Boost your students’ vocabulary with this useful collection of prepositional phrases.

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Boost Your Vocabulary: Is This Art?

Help your students talk about their favourite art while using new vocabulary.

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Grammar Cards: Using Prepositional Phrases

Boost your students’ vocabulary with this useful collection of prepositional phrases.

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Boost Your Vocabulary: Going Places

Help your students talk about their favourite holiday spots while using new vocabulary.

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Boost Your Vocabulary: It’s a plan!

Help your students understand the difference between the words practise and rehearse while using new phrases and expressions.

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Boost Your Vocabulary: Books & Stories

Help your students talk about their favourite books while using adjectives and prepositional phrases.

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Boost Your Vocabulary: Hobbies & Free-time Activities

Help your students talk about their hobbies and free-time activities while using collocations and superlatives.

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Lesson Share: Grammar: Prefixes

Svetlana Urisman wins the Lesson Share competition with an engaging board game activity to help students revise word formation using prefixes.

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Your English: Phrasal verbs: break

Tim Bowen makes a breakthrough in explaining the sometimes confusing phrasal verbs associated with this word.

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Your English: Phrasal verbs: pick

Tim Bowen picks out a few quirky examples of this sometimes suggestive phrasal verb.

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Your English: Phrasal verbs: fall

Tim Bowen goes into some detail about the dire consequences of falling for his advice.

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Your English: Phrasal verbs: step

Tim Bowen steps forward to offer his explanation of how this versatile word can be used to form several different phrasal verbs.

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FCE tips: use of English part 3: word formation

Aims to help students develop their instincts for identifying and creating different parts of speech.