I was happy to hear from Guido, a teacher working in Seville. He said that he liked the idea of using images of book covers from Amazon to create classroom activities. He made this YouTube clip for his students:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4hObhPOiT8U

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So what are the missing words?

…..   …………… that I had duck feet
…..   …………… I could hold your […]

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Like many teachers, I love expressions and sayings in the classroom. What I like about an idiom such as “The grass is always greener on the other side” is that it offers us such good value for money. Some possibilities:

Find out if students have an equivalent saying in their language
Ask […]

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Remind and remember book covers

I wrote a posting a few weeks ago to show how Microsoft Paint can be used to cover up parts of images (see posting here).
I have been using the technique recently to hide words and phrases in images obtained from Amazon. For a group of students who wanted to know the […]

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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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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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Can-and-could-dvd-titles.pdf is another lesson plan that uses images obtained from www.amazon.com. It exploits 21 DVD titles each of which contains either the auxiliary ‘can’ or the auxiliary ‘could’.

The activity requires learners to translate these 21 ‘minitexts’ into their own language and then translate them back into English. It is hoped that this process will […]

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