How to teach 'can' and 'can't' for ability
Category: Teaching Tips
Topic: Modals
How to make 'can' and 'can't' lessons really useful for students, including how to identify and deal with common problems with the language of ability.
How to teach Cambridge First Certificate (FCE) Use of English key word sentence transformations
Category: Teaching Tips
Topic: Exam Traps and Tricks
Teaching tips and stimulating classroom activities for Cambridge First Certificate Reading and Use of English Part Four (writing sentences with the same meaning), with 11 key word sentence transformation games.
How to teach possessive adjectives
Category: Teaching Tips
Topic: Adjectives and Adverbs
Simple and fun ways of teaching and practising "my", "your", "his", "her", "its", "our" and "their", with 16 possessive adjective games.
How to teach the zero conditional
Category: Teaching Tips
Topic: Conditionals
Teaching tips and fun classroom activities for "If…" with Present Simple, modal verbs and imperatives, including 18 Zero Conditional games.
How to teach English syllables
Category: Teaching Tips
Topic: Syllables
Teaching counting and pronouncing the right number of beats in English words.
How to teach FCE Listening Part Two gapfill tasks
Category: Teaching Tips
Topic: Exam Traps and Tricks
Exam tips and stimulating classroom activities for the Cambridge First Certificate Listening Part Two fill the gaps task.
How to teach like and would like
Category: Teaching Tips
Topic: Learning and Teaching
Teaching ideas for presenting and practising the differences between "like" for preferences and "would like" for desires etc, including many speaking games.
How to teach frequency expressions (adverbs of frequency etc)
Category: Teaching Tips
Topic: Adjectives and Adverbs
Teaching tips on and activities for expressions like "usually", "twice a week", "once every two weeks" and "every morning".
How to teach There is & There are
Category: Teaching Tips
Topic: Verbs and Tenses
Teaching tips and interactive classroom activities for "There is/ are" and its negative and question forms.
How to teach Cambridge First Certificate Writing Part One essays
Category: Teaching Tips
Topic: General
Teaching tips and classroom activities for the essay task in the updated FCE exam from January 2015.
How to teach the language of trends
Category: Teaching Tips
Topic: Vocabulary
Presentation and stimulating practice for describing changes, one of the most important kinds of business/ ESP language.
How to teach FCE Use of English Part Two open cloze
Category: Teaching Tips
Topic: Exam Traps and Tricks
Exam tips, self-study tips and stimulating classroom activities for the Cambridge First Certificate fill the gaps with one word task.
How to teach comparing and contrasting
Category: Teaching Tips
Topic: Comparatives & Superlatives
How to go far beyond "more" or "er" in describing similarities and differences.
How to teach hedging and generalising
Category: Teaching Tips
Topic: Learning and Teaching
How to teach and practise language to stop students overgeneralising and making stronger or more vague statements than they mean to
How to teach advantages and disadvantages- looking at both sides
Category: Teaching Tips
Topic: Learning and Teaching
Language and teaching ideas for examining both sides of an argument before reaching a conclusion in both speaking and writing
How to teach supporting your arguments
Category: Teaching Tips
Topic: Learning and Teaching
Presentation and practice for the most important part of giving opinions.
How to teach Cambridge First Certificate (FCE) Speaking Part Three
Category: Teaching Tips
Topic: Exam Traps and Tricks
How to present and practise useful language for the Cambridge FCE collaborative task.
How to test and teach detailed comprehension
Category: Teaching Tips
Topic: Functions & Text
How to test how much students understand of a reading or listening text and make sure they understand more next time.
How to teach the language of likes and dislikes
Category: Teaching Tips
Topic: Learning and Teaching
Stimulating presentation and practice of language for expressing preferences, with useful phrases and common student difficulties.
How to teach Cambridge First Certificate (FCE) Listening Part One
Category: Teaching Tips
Topic: Exam Traps and Tricks
Ways of teaching students how to improve their listening scores, and teaching them other useful stuff while they try to improve their listening scores.
How to teach Cambridge First Certificate (FCE) Speaking Part Two
Category: Teaching Tips
Topic: Exam Traps and Tricks
How to present and practise useful language for the Cambridge FCE comparing pictures long turn task.
How to teach Cambridge First Certificate (FCE) Speaking Part One
Category: Teaching Tips
Topic: Exam Traps and Tricks
What to teach students about the personal questions part of Cambridge FCE Speaking and how to practise it.
How to teach transport vocabulary to young learners
Category: Teaching Tips
Topic: Vocabulary
Lots of things to teach about transportation and how to do so
How to teach turn taking
Category: Teaching Tips
Topic: Learning and Teaching
Teaching polite interrupting, getting back on track, etc.
How to teach and use the language of newspaper headlines
Category: Teaching Tips
Topic: Functions & Text
Lessons to help students understand newspaper headlines