How to teach the imperative
Category: Teaching English
Topic: Verbs and Tenses
Teaching tips and classroom activities for imperatives for offers, emailing, telephoning, presentations, instructions, commands/ orders (and not requests!)
How to teach subject questions
Category: Teaching English
Topic: Questions
Teaching tips and classroom activities for wh word + main verb questions, including subject question games.
How to teach Social English
Category: Teaching English
Topic: General
Teaching tips and classroom activities for the language needed to meet people, socialise, and smoothly start and finish conversations.
How to teach indirect questions
Category: Teaching English
Topic: Questions
Embedded questions games and teaching tips
How to teach restaurant language
Category: Teaching English
Topic: Vocabulary
A guide to teaching language for hosts, guests and staff in restaurants.
How to teach positive and negative connotations
Category: Teaching English
Topic: Vocabulary
Teaching tips for presenting and practicing positive and negative words and expressions
How to teach advice, recommendations and suggestions
Category: Teaching English
Topic: Functions & Text
Teaching tips, games and other classroom activities for "should", "If I were you", "I would suggest", etc.
How to teach making and responding to invitations
Category: Teaching English
Topic: Functions & Text
Teaching tips and classroom activities for making, accepting and politely rejecting invitations.
How to teach small talk
Category: Teaching English
Topic: Discourse
Teaching tips and classroom activities for the difficult skills of smoothly chatting when meeting people, starting phone calls, ending meetings, etc.
How to teach small talk questions with how
Category: Teaching English
Topic: Questions
Teaching how to ask, respond to and extend conversations with "How are you?", "How was your weekend?" etc.
How to use body language and gestures in EFL classes
Category: Teaching English
Topic: General
An overview of gestures and other body language in English classes, including games and other teaching activities
How to teach international body language and gestures
Category: Teaching English
Topic: General
A guide to presenting and practising variations in body language and gestures around the world
Aptis Speaking Part One- Preparation Tips
Category: Teaching English
Topic: Exam Traps and Tricks
How to prepare for and teach Aptis Speaking Part One personal questions
Teaching pronunciation through body language and gestures
Category: Teaching English
Topic: Pronunciation
How teachers and students can use their bodies to make English sounds easier to pronounce and remember.
The big list of classroom language with gestures
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.
How to teach British and American English
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
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
How to teach British and American spelling and punctuation
Category: Teaching English
Topic: Varieties and Dialects
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.
How to teach giving and asking for directions
Category: Teaching English
Topic: General
Teaching tips and classroom activities for showing people where to go with "go straight ahead", "turn right", "take the second turning on your left", "opposite the station", etc.
British and American body language and gestures
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
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.