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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Preparation
The starting point for this lesson plan was to think of a good number of do or make collocations. My students’ notebooks were helpful for this task. Here is what I found:

Do 100 mph
Do a bungee jump
Make a cup of coffee
Make a face
Make a noise
Make a phone call
Do a strip tease
Make a wish
Do […]

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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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OK this is very silly. I came across one of those websites that exist for people with too much time on their hands and, well, one thing led to another. The site is called the Benny Hillifier and it lets you give any YouTube video the Benny Hill treatment. Anyway, thought my running dictation clip […]

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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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