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BEEN or GONE – Grammar Explanation
The difference between the words BEEN and GONE is a nice example of how closely grammar and vocabulary are connected. Usually, when you use a grammar rule wrongly, the meaning does not change. However,...
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Questions in the Past Tense
I remember the times in my teaching career when I dreaded teaching questions. I especially hated the questions in the past simple tense. After my explanation, students got confused and they often...
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When I teach the verb to be again, I am going to do this – Lesson 1
I have already taught the verb to be many times. But this year I failed exemplarily. So I stopped and spent a week planning a sequence of lessons to really teach this basic grammar point. In these...
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Conjunctions of time
To teach the conjunctions of time, it is crucial that the students understand the meaning of the conjunctions. That is why I have created the following graphic organiser which I use to explain the...
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Imagine that even your most challenged students understand new grammar? Imagine that they discover the rules themselves? Imagine that your students ask you to test them on the topic you have just...
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Two Simple Online Tools to Teach English
Grammar Pac and Dictate are two online tools which help me teach English. Both of these tools are online and they are made for interactive whiteboards. Both of them provide a simple way to practise...
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Present simple and present continuous
The aim of this post is to give you a set of materials to help you teach the difference between the present simple and continuous tenses. You can find several other resources on this topic here and...
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Grammar is very important. But grammar revision is often boring. The following videos try to make this task more interesting. Here there are five short grammar videos to teach and revise several...
View ArticlePast Simple for Regular Verbs – Videos and Speaking Activities to Teach this...
Do your students struggle with the past simple tense? Do you want to make your teaching more effective and fun? So do I. I want to teach my students to form and use the past simple tense in English,...
View ArticleVideos to Teach the Past Simple Tense
Recently I have created a set of videos to teach the past simple tense in English. There is a video that helps students learn to form the past tense in the following situations: the affirmative...
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