English Language Articles

Articles about learning, using and teaching the English language, including advice, tutorials, opinions and lesson plans from various authors and contributors. Articles cover topics from English grammar, spelling and punctuation, through to language teaching, career development, specialisations, and ideas and suggestions for the classroom.

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Teaching pronunciation through body language and gestures New Pinned

Category: Teaching English Topic: Phonetics

How teachers and students can use their bodies to make English sounds easier to pronounce and remember.

The top six grammar points for IELTS Pinned

Category: English Language Examinations Topic: Exam Traps and Tricks

The most important grammar for IELTS Speaking, Writing and Listening.

How to teach British and American English Pinned

Category: Teaching English Topic: Varieties and Dialects

The most important differences between UK and US English, and the best ways to present and practise them.

How to teach British and American times, dates and numbers Pinned

Category: Teaching English Topic: Varieties and Dialects

Differences in British and American times of day, dates, large numbers, units, etc, with teaching ideas and classroom activities

32 bad IELTS tips Pinned

Category: Learning English Topic: Exam Traps and Tricks

Things that you shouldn't do in IELTS, even though some people say you should

English Conditionals: An Introduction Pinned

Category: General Articles Topic: General

Everything you need to know about English Conditionals.

The big list of classroom language with gestures New

Category: Teaching English Topic: General

Nearly 100 classroom instructions and explanations that can be accompanied by gestures, with descriptions of how teachers can use their bodies.

Using body language and gestures to teach grammar

Category: Teaching English Topic: Learning and Teaching

Ways for teacher and students to use their bodies to present and practise grammatical forms such as tenses, modal verbs and passive voice

52 TPR grammar games

Category: Teaching English Topic: General

Using movement to practise grammatical forms such as Present Continuous, prepositions and future tenses.

How to teach British and American vocabulary

Category: Vocabulary Topic: Varieties and Dialects

The most important differences between British and American words and phrases, with teaching tips and classroom activities

Big list of British and American vocabulary by topic

Category: Learning English Topic: Varieties and Dialects

Nearly 900 different UK and US meanings and expressions on food, travel, places, people, law and order, education, medicine, STEM subjects, business, sports and games, multi-word verbs, idioms, office vocab, the arts and media, nature, and politics.

100 words with different meanings in British and American English

Category: Learning English Topic: Varieties and Dialects

Big list of different UK and US meanings of expressions like bill, biscuit, blow off and brackets, including compound nouns and phrasal verbs.

How to teach British and American spelling and punctuation

Category: General Articles Topic: General

Teaching tips and classroom activities for colour/ color, kilometre/ kilometer, commas in lists, and other British and American spelling and punctuation differences.

How to teach British and American grammar

Category: Teaching English Topic: Varieties and Dialects

How to present and practise the most important grammatical differences between British and American English

How to teach British and American functional language

Category: Teaching English Topic: Varieties and Dialects

Important differences in requesting, thanking, etc in the US and UK, including how to teach those differences.