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Teaching grammar and vocabulary
15 August, 2018
To textbook or not to textbook? That is the grammar question.
Based on 1) ELT literature and research, 2) my experience teaching English and 3) my experience learning foreign languages (Arabic,...
Teaching grammar and vocabulary
10 August, 2018
Grammar-Translation Method as Part of the Communicative Approach to ELT.
Let us create the harmony in ELT!
Teaching grammar and vocabulary
8 August, 2018
Breaking up Big Grammar
How can you break up big grammar points when using a coursebook with a structural syllabus? Mark Trevarton shares his strategies.
Teaching grammar and vocabulary
19 June, 2018
Different Games and Activities may help students build and retain vocabulary a lot!!
Teaching grammar and vocabulary
22 June, 2016
Shaking up the grammar class!
"And now let's open our grammar books..."
Teaching grammar and vocabulary
11 May, 2015
David Dodgson: More Than a Word - The Green Cross Code and Other Vocabulary Tips
I am currently taking the online component of the Trinity Dip TESOL course and our current focus is on Unit 1 ‘Language and Methodology’.
Teaching grammar and vocabulary
24 April, 2015
Vocabulary Learning
When children come back to school in September after a long summer break, we teachers may be faced with what is known as tabula rasa, which...
Teaching grammar and vocabulary
31 March, 2015
Larry Ferlazzo: ESL/ELL error correction - Yes, No or Maybe?
The issue of "error correction," particularly focused on grammar, can be a controversial topic in ESL/ELL circles.
Teaching grammar and vocabulary
2 March, 2015
Vocabulary is the Elixir of the English Language
Vocabulary is dynamically essential for any ESL/EFL learner.desiring to be fluent in English.
Teaching grammar and vocabulary
27 February, 2015
Larry Ferlazzo: Five strategies for ELL vocabulary instruction
Reading, writing, listening and speaking in a new language demands a number of prerequisites -- a desire to do so; a certain level of self-...
Teaching grammar and vocabulary
19 February, 2015
Rachael Roberts - Learning vocabulary through reading
When I was first learning to teach, someone told me that students have to learn a word 9 times in order for it to really ‘stick’.
Teaching grammar and vocabulary
17 February, 2015
Headlines: Recycling vocabulary creatively
Review and recycling of new language items is critical if they stand a chance of becoming readily accessible in long-term memory.
Teaching grammar and vocabulary
10 February, 2015
Vocabulary Learning
Vocabulary is always a very good topic for discussion. This time, I decided to approach it from a professional angle.
Teaching grammar and vocabulary
28 January, 2015
David Petrie: Doing grammar – the evolution of a teacher
At first, when I started teaching, I was afraid of grammar. I was petrified.
Teaching grammar and vocabulary
27 January, 2015
Larry Ferlazzo: Four strategies for grammar instruction
Grammar is not always the favorite part of language that educators want to teach or students want to learn. Let's take a quick look at...
Teaching grammar and vocabulary
26 January, 2015
Using "slashed" activities to teach and revisit grammar
As I mostly teach adults who appreciate being offered possibly practical and personalised activities, I always try to make the grammar and...
Teaching grammar and vocabulary
19 January, 2015
Doing Grammar
Ah, Grammar, an ever-interesting topic, one of the words which make students groan.
Teaching grammar and vocabulary
15 December, 2013
Language Awareness Task
What's the difference?
Teaching grammar and vocabulary
22 September, 2013
On the Formation of the Tenses.
A verb is a word of action. Verbs can be divided into two groups- lexical and auxiliary.
Teaching grammar and vocabulary
3 May, 2013
Words used as different parts of speech- Common nouns as pronouns???
Many words can be used as different parts of speech. For example, early, daily, look like adverbs, but they can be used as adjectives as in...
Teaching grammar and vocabulary
23 February, 2013
AUXILIARIES, AUXILIARY VERBS, AUXILIARY CUM VERBS and VERBS
Different auxiliary verbs - Willing to be good in English language ought to distinguish these. The difficult matter in English is , to know...
Teaching grammar and vocabulary
13 September, 2012
To identify the direct and indirect objects in a sentence.
This is a method to identify the direct and indirect objects in a sentence.
Teaching grammar and vocabulary
7 February, 2012
Teaching Grammar - Future Tenses - The "Will you marry me" Story
When I teach Future tenses pupils don´t understand a thing! The problem is in L1 we have only two forms of Future.
Teaching grammar and vocabulary
5 January, 2012
Interrogatives
Questioning is more usual than answering in conversation, isn't it?
Teaching grammar and vocabulary
15 December, 2011
V.Mahendiran's basic grammar task 1.3
V.Mahendiran's basic grammar task 1.3

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Teaching grammar and vocabulary
15 August, 2018
To textbook or not to textbook? That is the grammar question.
Based on 1) ELT literature and research, 2) my experience teaching English and 3) my experience learning foreign languages (Arabic,...
Teaching grammar and vocabulary
10 August, 2018
Grammar-Translation Method as Part of the Communicative Approach to ELT.
Let us create the harmony in ELT!
Teaching grammar and vocabulary
8 August, 2018
Breaking up Big Grammar
How can you break up big grammar points when using a coursebook with a structural syllabus? Mark Trevarton shares his strategies.
Teaching grammar and vocabulary
19 June, 2018
Different Games and Activities may help students build and retain vocabulary a lot!!
Teaching grammar and vocabulary
22 June, 2016
Shaking up the grammar class!
"And now let's open our grammar books..."
Teaching grammar and vocabulary
11 May, 2015
David Dodgson: More Than a Word - The Green Cross Code and Other Vocabulary Tips
I am currently taking the online component of the Trinity Dip TESOL course and our current focus is on Unit 1 ‘Language and Methodology’.
Teaching grammar and vocabulary
24 April, 2015
Vocabulary Learning
When children come back to school in September after a long summer break, we teachers may be faced with what is known as tabula rasa, which...
Teaching grammar and vocabulary
31 March, 2015
Larry Ferlazzo: ESL/ELL error correction - Yes, No or Maybe?
The issue of "error correction," particularly focused on grammar, can be a controversial topic in ESL/ELL circles.
Teaching grammar and vocabulary
2 March, 2015
Vocabulary is the Elixir of the English Language
Vocabulary is dynamically essential for any ESL/EFL learner.desiring to be fluent in English.
Teaching grammar and vocabulary
27 February, 2015
Larry Ferlazzo: Five strategies for ELL vocabulary instruction
Reading, writing, listening and speaking in a new language demands a number of prerequisites -- a desire to do so; a certain level of self-...
Teaching grammar and vocabulary
19 February, 2015
Rachael Roberts - Learning vocabulary through reading
When I was first learning to teach, someone told me that students have to learn a word 9 times in order for it to really ‘stick’.
Teaching grammar and vocabulary
17 February, 2015
Headlines: Recycling vocabulary creatively
Review and recycling of new language items is critical if they stand a chance of becoming readily accessible in long-term memory.
Teaching grammar and vocabulary
10 February, 2015
Vocabulary Learning
Vocabulary is always a very good topic for discussion. This time, I decided to approach it from a professional angle.
Teaching grammar and vocabulary
28 January, 2015
David Petrie: Doing grammar – the evolution of a teacher
At first, when I started teaching, I was afraid of grammar. I was petrified.
Teaching grammar and vocabulary
27 January, 2015
Larry Ferlazzo: Four strategies for grammar instruction
Grammar is not always the favorite part of language that educators want to teach or students want to learn. Let's take a quick look at...
Teaching grammar and vocabulary
26 January, 2015
Using "slashed" activities to teach and revisit grammar
As I mostly teach adults who appreciate being offered possibly practical and personalised activities, I always try to make the grammar and...
Teaching grammar and vocabulary
19 January, 2015
Doing Grammar
Ah, Grammar, an ever-interesting topic, one of the words which make students groan.
Teaching grammar and vocabulary
15 December, 2013
Language Awareness Task
What's the difference?
Teaching grammar and vocabulary
22 September, 2013
On the Formation of the Tenses.
A verb is a word of action. Verbs can be divided into two groups- lexical and auxiliary.
Teaching grammar and vocabulary
3 May, 2013
Words used as different parts of speech- Common nouns as pronouns???
Many words can be used as different parts of speech. For example, early, daily, look like adverbs, but they can be used as adjectives as in...
Teaching grammar and vocabulary
23 February, 2013
AUXILIARIES, AUXILIARY VERBS, AUXILIARY CUM VERBS and VERBS
Different auxiliary verbs - Willing to be good in English language ought to distinguish these. The difficult matter in English is , to know...
Teaching grammar and vocabulary
13 September, 2012
To identify the direct and indirect objects in a sentence.
This is a method to identify the direct and indirect objects in a sentence.
Teaching grammar and vocabulary
7 February, 2012
Teaching Grammar - Future Tenses - The "Will you marry me" Story
When I teach Future tenses pupils don´t understand a thing! The problem is in L1 we have only two forms of Future.
Teaching grammar and vocabulary
5 January, 2012
Interrogatives
Questioning is more usual than answering in conversation, isn't it?
Teaching grammar and vocabulary
15 December, 2011
V.Mahendiran's basic grammar task 1.3
V.Mahendiran's basic grammar task 1.3

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Teaching grammar and vocabulary
29 November, 2009
English and its strict word order.
This blog looks at word order.
Teaching grammar and vocabulary
30 December, 2008
a gap in the English language
For my last blog entry I just want to reflect aloud on something I have noticed many times in contact with other languages, and which...
Teaching grammar and vocabulary
29 November, 2009
A method to understand The Person of Pronouns
A pronoun has the following three properties, the `person`, the `gender` and the `number` just as a noun has.
Teaching grammar and vocabulary
29 November, 2009
A possible word order in sentences?
I would like to ask your opinion about an idea I had for the teaching of Spoken English.
Teaching grammar and vocabulary
11 September, 2008
Autonomous Online Learning: Can it work?
I've just embarked on an experiment to find out if students are willing and able to develop their English working autonomously online.
Teaching grammar and vocabulary
23 February, 2013
AUXILIARIES, AUXILIARY VERBS, AUXILIARY CUM VERBS and VERBS
Different auxiliary verbs - Willing to be good in English language ought to distinguish these. The difficult matter in English is , to know...
Teaching grammar and vocabulary
8 August, 2018
Breaking up Big Grammar
How can you break up big grammar points when using a coursebook with a structural syllabus? Mark Trevarton shares his strategies.
Teaching grammar and vocabulary
29 November, 2009
Changing from Active to Passive Voice using just the auxiliary verbs.
Hi All! Please give me your opinion about the following method of transforming sentences from Active voice to Passive voice. The method...
Teaching grammar and vocabulary
11 December, 2011
Compartments
You need not confuse of hearing this word ‘compartment”.
Teaching grammar and vocabulary
4 September, 2008
Creating Word clouds
I've just found a wonderful free tool called Wordle. It's a really useful tool to help teachers or students create word clouds...
Teaching grammar and vocabulary
11 May, 2015
David Dodgson: More Than a Word - The Green Cross Code and Other Vocabulary Tips
I am currently taking the online component of the Trinity Dip TESOL course and our current focus is on Unit 1 ‘Language and Methodology’.
Teaching grammar and vocabulary
28 January, 2015
David Petrie: Doing grammar – the evolution of a teacher
At first, when I started teaching, I was afraid of grammar. I was petrified.
Teaching grammar and vocabulary
19 June, 2018
Different Games and Activities may help students build and retain vocabulary a lot!!
Teaching grammar and vocabulary
24 December, 2009
Direct Indirect speech.
This blog looks at direct and indirect speech.
Teaching grammar and vocabulary
19 January, 2015
Doing Grammar
Ah, Grammar, an ever-interesting topic, one of the words which make students groan.
Teaching grammar and vocabulary
3 August, 2008
From grammar-based teaching to task-based teaching - making the shift
Response to Frank in Mexico, who asks: From grammar-based teaching to task-based teaching - how to help other teachers make the shift (and...
Teaching grammar and vocabulary
7 April, 2010
Games vs handouts
Last week I explained how to reduce relative clauses into phrases to my 11 graders and they were all confused.
Teaching grammar and vocabulary
10 August, 2018
Grammar-Translation Method as Part of the Communicative Approach to ELT.
Let us create the harmony in ELT!
Teaching grammar and vocabulary
17 February, 2015
Headlines: Recycling vocabulary creatively
Review and recycling of new language items is critical if they stand a chance of becoming readily accessible in long-term memory.
Teaching grammar and vocabulary
7 February, 2011
How to teach grammar
How to teach grammar: Three Golden Rules
Teaching grammar and vocabulary
5 January, 2012
Interrogatives
Questioning is more usual than answering in conversation, isn't it?
Teaching grammar and vocabulary
15 December, 2013
Language Awareness Task
What's the difference?
Teaching grammar and vocabulary
31 March, 2015
Larry Ferlazzo: ESL/ELL error correction - Yes, No or Maybe?
The issue of "error correction," particularly focused on grammar, can be a controversial topic in ESL/ELL circles.
Teaching grammar and vocabulary
27 February, 2015
Larry Ferlazzo: Five strategies for ELL vocabulary instruction
Reading, writing, listening and speaking in a new language demands a number of prerequisites -- a desire to do so; a certain level of self-...
Teaching grammar and vocabulary
27 January, 2015
Larry Ferlazzo: Four strategies for grammar instruction
Grammar is not always the favorite part of language that educators want to teach or students want to learn. Let's take a quick look at...

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Autonomous Online Learning: Can it work?
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Breaking up Big Grammar
Changing from Active to Passive Voice using just the auxiliary verbs.
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