I found this photograph the other day and thought my students might like it - especially the ones that think that English spelling is difficult. Can you spot the mistake?
I remember finding this sign one day when I was out for a walk with my dad (that’s him in the photograph). Perhaps whoever wrote ‘Fishing […]
Tags: Pronunciation · Spelling
What’s going on?
This is a funny picture story that I have come accross a few times on the internet. I used Microsoft Paint to cover up the subject in each image, showed the series to my students and asked them to guess what was going on.
Microsoft paint is a free and simple program that […]
Tags: Creative writing · Lesson plans · Past simple · Writing
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 […]
Tags: Auxiliaries · Conditionals · Could have, should have, would have · Grammar · Learner-friendly corpora · Lesson plans · Using images from Amazon.com
I love these road signs that you see all over England:
I have been using these images to bring to my students’ attention the two different pronunciations of ‘ow’ (slow and down, know and now, crow and crowd, own and town, etc).
Try getting them to make tongue twisters with the following items:
The ‘hit your thumb […]
Tags: Pronunciation · Spelling