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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70 ways to improve your English Pinned

Category: Learning English Topic: Learning and Teaching

Learning a new language can be hard work, so here are 70 practical tips for improving your English that you can do outside of school or collage

British and American body language and gestures New

Category: Teaching English Topic: Varieties and Dialects

A guide to gestures and body language in the UK and USA, including differences and similarities, and comparisons to other countries.

How to teach TOEIC Listening Part Two: Question Response New

Category: Teaching English Topic: Exam Traps and Tricks

Teaching tips and classroom practice ideas for the question-response tasks in TOEIC Listening Section Two

How to teach present time expressions

Category: Teaching English Topic: Verbs and Tenses

Teaching tips, games and other classroom activities for "at the moment", "often", "once every two weeks" etc with Present Simple and Present Continuous.

How to teach the language of feelings

Category: Teaching English Topic: Vocabulary

Teaching tips and classroom activities for the language emotions, from very young learners to advanced learners.

The 150 most useful Business English abbreviations

Category: Teaching English for Specific Purposes Topic: Vocabulary

The most important business acronyms and other ESP abbreviations for EFL learners.

How to teach past time expressions

Category: Teaching English Topic: Verbs and Tenses

Teaching tips and classroom activities for time expressions with narrative tenses and Used to.

How to teach future time expressions

Category: Teaching Tips Topic: Future Forms

Teaching tips and classroom activities for future times like "in two days", "within five working days" and "by the end of this week", including common issues with future time expressions.

How to teach prepositions of time

Category: Teaching Tips Topic: Prepositions

Teaching tips and classroom games and activities for time expressions with at, in, on, no preposition etc

How to teach English plurals

Category: Teaching Tips Topic: Nouns

Teaching tips, games and other classroom activities for regular and irregular plural nouns.

How to teach telling the time in English

Category: Teaching Tips Topic: General

Teaching tips and classroom games/ activities for "seven o'clock", "nine p.m.", "sixteen hundred hours", etc.

How to teach irregular plurals

Category: Teaching Tips Topic: Nouns

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

How to teach ordinal numbers to EFL learners

Category: Teaching Tips Topic: Vocabulary

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

How to teach dates in English

Category: Teaching Tips Topic: Vocabulary

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

How to teach months

Category: Teaching Tips Topic: Vocabulary

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