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Speaking is one of the reasons our students come to our lessons and keep returning to our classrooms, so we need to utilise a range of activities which fosters speaking…

Learning vocabulary is one of the great challenges of learning a language, not only because there are literally thousands of words in a language to learn, but because one word…

It’s not groundbreaking news that authentic materials are beneficial for our English as a Foreign Language learners. We have all heard of people who have learnt English by watching YouTube…

Once you have spent a couple of months teaching English as a foreign language and have some experience under your belt, you may soon feel a bit of deja vu…

Sometimes our classrooms can seem like anything but English language learning classrooms. Even though our students need to learn English – that’s why they’re there in the first place! –…

If you think teaching English as a foreign language is all about teaching lessons, then you’ve got another thing coming. Though of course being in the classroom and teaching lessons…

We’ve spoken about collocations before and why they are useful for our learners. Now we need to look at different activities to teach collocations. Learning collocations is not easy so…

What makes Advanced learners Advanced learners is most notably their ability to use language naturally. What this means is producing language in lexical chunks which are appropriate and relevant for…