Wordcount is a beautiful squeaky-clean representation of the 86,800 most frequent words in English (data is taken from the British National Corpus).

This is the best representation of a word list I have ever seen. As you can see, the word list is presented as a long horizontal chain. The more common a word in the […]

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This teaching idea may be a good way to introduce or revise the infinitive of purpose. You will need to have online access (an IT room, for example).
Write the following on the board:
Life’s too short to …
Ask your learners if they can think of any way in which this sentence can be completed. If […]

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