Surely one of the most fascinating subjects for the language classroom is the subject of language itself. By that, I’m not referring to those all-too-familiar grammar explanations in which the teacher uses images of winning the lottery to explain the second conditional (we’ve all done it!) I am referring to the topics that might be […]

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Homer Simpson once said something along the lines of: “If God had wanted us to be vegetarians, he wouldn’t have made animals out of meat.”

This is the starting point for a lesson plan on the third conditional.
third-conditional.pdf
In the activity, students are given a homework task in which they have to use a search engine […]

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Here is the end product of a lesson plan in which a group of adult learners created their own Mr Men and Little Miss characters:

The artists were: Ana, Carlos, Elena, Eva, Inés, Juana, Marián, Marta, Pilar, Silvia, Silvia and Verónica. As well as making a drawings of their character, everyone had to write a short […]

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the-venus-of-willendorf.pdf
The Venus of Willendorf (below) is an icon of prehistoric art. It is housed in the Museum of Natural History in Vienna. One day, a visitor to the museum asks a guide how old it is. The guide replies that it is 25 thousand years and 8 months old. The visitor is […]

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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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Burcu Akyol sent me some drawings from one of her classes. She asked her students to draw a man with a baby gorilla talking to a policeman in the street. Students were then asked to consider what was happening and create dialogs. This is a preparation stage for an activity from my new book (that’s […]

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