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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How to teach irregular plurals New

Teaching tips and classroom activities for plurals without -s like "children", "sheep" and "alumni"

Teaching ordinal numbers to EFL learners

Teaching tips, games and other classroom practice for first, second, third, etc.

How to teach dates in English

Classroom games and teaching tips for "The first of December two thousand and one", "January twenty second nineteen seventy", etc.

How to teach months

Games and other classroom activities to help students memorise and be able to use months from January to December

How to teach days of the week in English

Teachings tips, games and other classroom activities for memorising how to say and spell Monday, Tuesday, etc.

Blocks games for different language points

How to use a simple set of stackable blocks to practise a wide range of different grammar, vocabulary, pronunciation, etc including personal questions, colours, numbers, there is/ there are, countable and uncountable, prepositions of position and phonics.

300 Technical English abbreviations list

The most useful acronyms and other short forms for engineers and other technical staff

How to teach short answers

Teaching tips and game ideas for short answers like "Yes, I do", "No, he hasn't" and "Yes, there are"

How to teach Yes/ No questions

Teaching tips and classroom games/ activities to present and practise Yes/ No questions like "Is this umbrella yours?" and "Did you have a good time?"

The 250 most useful British abbreviations

Short forms which are often used in the UK and to describe British life.

250 British acronyms

The most useful acronyms for understanding British life

How to teach country and nationality words

Teaching tips and classroom activities for helping students France/ French, Switzerland/ Swiss, etc.

How to teach comparative and superlative adjectives

Teaching ideas and stimulating practice activities for adjectives with more, most, -er and - est.

Superlative Adjectives- Classroom Activities

Intensive classroom practice activities of superlative adjectives and related language

How to teach Latin abbreviations

How to present and practise English abbreviations that come from Latin such as "e.g.", "i.e." and "PS"