This is a simple reading task on the theme of Easter in the UK. It helps students learn about how this time is celebrated in the UK and reflect on special occasions in their own culture.

Newspapers are a useful tool in the ELT classroom for improving reading skills and enhancing students' knowledge of current affairs.

Here are two text quickies that I like to use with my learners to prepare them for reading or to follow up on a text they have read.

These activities describe different ways you and your students can read text aloud in order to develop your students' feeling for the music of the language.

This is an integrated reading and speaking activity for intermediate (or higher) level students. They make decisions in pairs or groups with the aim of spending one million euros.

These activities are only available as a download because they are fairly long and provide full reading texts. They are related to the THINK article - Lexical Approach 1 - - What does the lexical approach look like?

Simple search tasks are incredibly easy to set students using the web as a language learning tool. They don't have to be particularly complicated, or even well-researched, although this helps!

Directed activities related to texts (DARTs) are activities which get students to interact with texts. Their aim is to improve students' reading comprehension and to make them critical readers.

This is an approach to reading that involves the students in speaking and summarising skills. It is very useful when working with short authentic texts such as newspaper articles.

There are many ways you can work with classroom readers that are more inspiring and engaging than standard approaches, which can have negative effects on learning.