English (ESL) Weblog: Archives

• Jan 1: Site Overview 2012

• Dec 27: Site Overview- 2011

• Jun 30: The linguistic genius of babies [Video]

• Jan 16: English Mania

• Jun 10: ESL World Cup links

• Feb 1: English, a Crazy Language Indeed!

• Jan 12: Getting Back to Normal

• Jul 25: Noam Chomsky Talks About Universal Grammar [Video]

• May 30: Teachermate -Handheld Console for Educational Games
• May 27: Drilling - Judicious Use of Brute Force in the ESL Classroom

• Apr 21: Once Upon A School - TED Prize Winner

• Mar 7: Teacher Training -Grammar Based PPP

• Feb 20: Lexxica -Vocabulary Analysis

• Dec 31: Site Overview- 2007

• Nov 30: Teaching Christmas

• Oct 29: Teaching Abroad
• Oct 14: Steven Pinker on Language & Thought

• Sep 30: Lesson Plans and Handouts

• Jul 9: Graded Text Analysis

• Jun 21: New Database

• Apr 22: Supplementary Teaching Resources for EFL/ESL Teachers
• Apr 13: Is there/Are there?
• Apr 13: Talking About Routines - a handout

• Feb 5: A handout on the Present Perfect tense
• Feb 1: Lesson Plan/Target Language: What does s/he do? S/he's a (occupation).

• Jan 25: Lesson Plan/Target Language: How old are you? I'm a (number).

• Dec 31: Site Overview- 2006
• Dec 22: A handout on irregular plural noun forms

• Nov 18: Pronounciation Practice and Listening Exercise - listening and practicing the 'th' sound
• Nov 1: How do you spell (noun) in English?

• Oct 31: All about me! - A classroom activity
• Oct 26: Who is he? / Who is she? - A guessing game
• Oct 10: What (food/colour/sport) do you like? I like (noun)
• Oct 10: What are you doing? I'm (action) Lesson Plan
• Oct 6: Contextualizing
• Oct 4: Changing Wh-questions with do, does, or did into indirect questions - a handout
• Oct 2: Where's the (roach)? It's (preposition) the wall.

• Sep 24: Expressing Wishes
• Sep 19: Changing Wh-questions with the be verb to indirect questions - a handout

• Jul 23: Strategies For Remembering
• Jul 21: Thought Bubbles
• Jul 6: To "Google"

• Jun 23: What do you see? I see a (noun). Lesson Plan for Young Learners
• Jun 8: Teaching with Photographs

• May 21: Bare Wicked

• Apr 30: First Languages Spoken at UsingEnglish.com

• Mar 27: Football Stars Name Their Favourite Books
• Mar 14: The physical body speaks language!
• Mar 8: What aches? Lesson Plan for Young Learners

• Feb 9: An Open Invitation to EFL Teachers
• Feb 7: Do you like (noun)? Lesson plan

• Jan 31: A Primer for teaching English to speakers of other languages
• Jan 15: Lesson Plan: What colour is it? It's (colour).
• Jan 8: Teaching the five W's - Who, What, Where, Why, When (Interrogative pronouns)
• Jan 7: Teaching numbers from 1 to 12, and How many?
• Jan 3: "How are you?" Lesson Plan for Young Learners

• Dec 31: End of year overview

• Nov 26: Taking a Bottom-up Approach to Learning and Teaching English

• Oct 17: Tips and suggestions on public speaking.
• Oct 16: A lesson plan to educate high school students (advanced level) about the dangers of intolerance
• Oct 3: What am I?
• Oct 2: 'What if' questions

• Sep 19: Wash your mouth out with soap

• Aug 13: Realia
• Aug 8: Fruit Basket
• Aug 5: Language and Culture

• Jul 31: Cliches
• Jul 23: The EFL Teacher Postcard Project
• Jul 14: Using fairytale plays in the EFL classroom
• Jul 10: EFL and Confucius
• Jul 2: Creating an English atmosphere outside the classroom

• May 29: Cinquan Poetry
• May 15: Some more thoughts on the shadow side of teaching abroad
• May 11: Some thoughts on the shadow side of teaching abroad

• Apr 25: Who Needs Proof?
• Apr 24: A reflection on lesson planning for young learners
• Apr 21: A recipe for humanizing language teaching: Hand made interview/conversational board games
• Apr 1: Swear words: Do they have a place in the EFL classroom?

• Mar 18: Languages spoken at the UsingEnglish.com forum

• Dec 21: Is collocation all it's cracked up to be?
• Dec 12: The Pimsleur Method

• Sep 26: Code-Switching

• Aug 20: Gr8

• Jun 18: Business English Online
• Jun 12: When Did Forward Thinking Become a Thing Of The Past?
• Jun 1: Should Newspapers print Swearing?

• Apr 29: Fora & Forums

• Mar 17: Killer Punctuation

• Feb 23: Emails

• Jan 26: Dumbing Down Our Children
• Jan 10: Learn Grammar; I didn't!

• Dec 4: Was & Were in English dialects

• Nov 25: Apples and Orange's
• Nov 9: Is it time to call a truce on 'less' + plural?

• Oct 25: Empty Speech
• Oct 17: Avenge
• Oct 12: March Session of CAE
• Oct 6: Phrasal Verbs

• Sep 15: Exams and Testing
• Sep 5: Citizenship classes for new Britons

• Aug 31: Is English an easy language to learn?
• Aug 23: Tense changes in indirect speech
• Aug 18: Unstressed Forms
• Aug 17: Do exams have a negative impact on learning?
• Aug 8: Descriptivist Grammar

• Jul 7: Is English Easy?
• Jul 3: Adjectives - Good, Better and Best
• Jul 1: Rules for Comparisons

• Jun 28: Webster's Dictionary

• May 29: Apostrophes
• May 28: The Myth of 3 Words Ending in 'GRY'
• May 28: A Global Language?
• May 28: The Apostrophe
• May 28: The Whom Debate

• Mar 19: I Before E Except After C
• Mar 14: Phrasal Verbs
• Mar 6: Inversion
• Mar 6: Will and Going
• Mar 3: Text Messaging, Computers and Literacy
• Mar 2: Superlanguages

• Feb 27: Mental Health, Abnormality and Labelling Theory
• Feb 27: Is There a Grammar of Spoken English?
• Feb 27: Double Letters
• Feb 4: Grammar and Disputation