could’ve-should’ve-would’ve.pdf
Here is the slideshow that I have referred to in the current issue of English Teaching Professional. It consists of 12 book cover images taken from Amazon.co.uk, each of which contains one of the following notoriously problematic structures:
Could + have + past participle
Should + have + past participle
Would + have + past participle
Ideas for […]

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A Hyperlinked Headlines document is a Word file containing a number of thematically-selected newspaper headlines each linked to the news story or article to which it pertains. Here is an example:
climate-change-hyperlinked-headlines.doc
Here is one possible way of using such a file in class:
Day 1

Download the file.
If you have a projector in your classroom, display […]

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In my last posting I gave alist of 10 songs containing either ‘going to’ or gonna or both. In this posting, I am going to show you howI found them.
In the old days, if you had wanted to find 10 songs each containing a piece of target language, you would have had to do one […]

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“I love quotations because it is a joy to find thoughts one might have, beautifully expressed with much authority by someone recognized wiser than oneself.”
Marlene Dietrich
Quotations are an invaluable resource for the language classroom. As texts, they are short, autonomous in meaning, thought provoking, memorable and easy to obtain. In the old days, I used […]

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This is another lesson plan that makes use of images obtained from www.Amazon.com. The aim is to introduce learners to the S.A.N.E. determiners (some, any, no and every).

I feel that there are at least three situations in which learners should meet and consider these four determiners as a system:
1. It can be helpful to point […]

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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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