I found a site that allows you to download high resolution images of the Mr Men book covers (click here for link). Here are twelve.
Q: What do they have in common?

A: Their names all consist of 2-syllable adjectives.
A lesson plan that uses these images can be downloaded on pdf below.
  mr-men-book-covers.pdf

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Browsing Wikipedia, I came across two special hotels that might demonstrate a difference between two potentially confusing adjectives.

The Rose Rotana, Dubai
72 storeys
333 meters high
The entire building is to be used exclusively as a hotel. It is scheduled to open later this year and will be the tallest hotel in the world.

International Commerce Centre, Hong Kong
118 […]

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A headline from the Guardian reads: Rubber banned: Keep Britain Tidy wages war on Royal Mail elastic bands (read article here).

The exploitation of homophones for play-on-word newspaper headlines is common practice. In this case, one of the words is a regular -ed past participle (banned) and that makes it extra clever. Here are other examples […]

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One of the title words on the book cover below has been covered up. Can you work out what the word is?

Here is an excerpt from the synopsis:
What is Health _ _ _ _ _ _ _ about?
Health _ _ _ _ _ _ _ is an innovative new book about lifestyle, disease risks, diseases […]

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Sometimes students tell me that they would like to do a revision lesson. I ask them what they would like to revise and they say, “Verbs, of course”. Then I say, “What aspect of verbs would you like to revise?” and they reply, “Oh, you know - the past, the present, the future, and things […]

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I just posted a teaching idea on teflclips called Guess the context. The basic activity involves giving students a line from a film clip and asking them to guess who is speaking and what is happening.
I use this technique to demonstrate to students the importance of context. I think that a language learners’ appreciation of […]

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