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Teaching suggestions to help B2 level learners with adjectives

Teaching Suggestions Here are some activities to use in the classroom to help upper intermediate learners with adjectives.  Adjective auction Aim: To make learners aware of the position and order of adjectives. Procedure: Give each pair of st...

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Julius

For the teacher: helping Cambridge First candidates with adjectives

In this essay I am going to examine teaching the features of adjectives to upper intermediate learners studying general English in Spain.  I think it is important for my learners to become more aware of how adjectives are used in communication...

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Julius

Learner problems with hypothetical meaning in English

Meaning I find that many of my upper intermediate learners in Spain have not yet established a solid connection between form and hypothetical meaning. And although these same learners understand the concept of hypothetical meaning, they do not...

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Julius

Teaching Hypothetical Conditionals in English: 2nd, 3rd and mixed

In this essay I am going to examine the teaching of hypothetical meaning to upper intermediate level learners. The main reason to look at language to express hypothetical meaning is that it is used in such a wide variety of situations and we imagine...

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Julius

Teaching suggestions: Reading Activities

Teaching suggestions These activities can be used with any text from magazines, newspapers or short stories. The Art of Giving Aim:  Practice skimming for global understanding.  Practice scanning to find specific information.  Incre...

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Julius

Tips for teachers of English: How we reach detailed understanding of text and learner problems

How we reach detailed understanding: 5 ideas  Top-down processing When readers comprehend text using a top-down process they use their “previous knowledge and experience of the world” to understand what lies in the text.  That means that...

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Laura

There is an imposter among us! The best mobile games for practising English

The other day, I was asking my online class what games they liked to play with their friends. This being a) the 21st century and b) during lockdown, the answers were centred less around sports and more among online games. I asked the kids to explain...

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Cristina

No doubt, write your future, study abroad

Welcome to the travel of what it would be tomorrow´s education. The crew today is going to be an international student currently living in Canada. The weather conditions are… The time that it´ll take to get to our destination is… Every year, a lot o...

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Helena

Activity to learn the correct collocation of descriptive adjectives

Adding Adjectives Adjectives are words that describe nouns and pronouns. Adjectives set a mood and add interest to your writing. Below is a paragraph that needs your help. Write an adjective from the list into each blank. Pick adjectives that make...

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Julius

Helping Upper intermediate level learners to read for detailed understanding Part 1

Helping Upper intermediate level learners to read for detailed understanding Introduction Why reading? We live in a “print-dominated world” (Read 2007:48) where reading is a fundamental skill.  Reading deserves an important place in the EFL cla...

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Yolanda

IELTS writings all that you need to know....

When it comes to IELTS one of the most scary sections is the writing, is the last section of the test, there is a huge challenge with the time, and the most important element, is that we never now what to say and whether this will be good enough or...

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Laura

English for the Tourism Sector: Making lemonade out of lemons

Have you ever come across the English expression: “when life gives you lemons, make lemonade”? It means that when we find ourselves in a bad situation, we must always try to make the best of it; instead of feeling sorry for ourselves, we should...

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Anca

Learning English: sweet dream or dreadful nightmare?

For the majority of Spaniards learning English has become their life goal. However, would you all agree with me if I said that this particular dream has a way of turning into a nightmare? I can hear you all saying 'Yes' right now. Let's face it, it'...

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Natalia

5 reasons for traveling to London as soon as you can

Hi there! I couldn't think of a better topic than London for my first post. Have you ever been to the capital of England? If not, you really should and I am going to give you 5 arguments to catch a plane and spend a few days (or more!) there. 1. Pra...

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