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A homophone is a word that has the same sound as another word but different meaning and spelling.

A homonym is a word that has the same sound or spelling as another but a different meaning.

LearnEnglish Kids is the British Council’s website for children aged 5-12 who are learning English as a second or foreign language. Find out about the different features of the site and how you can use it in class.

A lexical set is a group of words with the same topic, function or form.

'I like doing homework!' 'We get too much homework.' 'Homework is really boring.' 'The teacher doesn’t always check my homework.' What would your learners say about homework? How can you make it a bit more fun?

Paraphrasing is finding another way to say something when you don't know how to say it.

This teaching tips looks at how to adapt materials for different age groups.

Like many good stories, the story of our Cup Song starts with a little something which gradually increases and gets much bigger than expected.

Teaching with minimal resources can seem a daunting prospect for those of us lucky enough to work with coursebooks, photocopiers, audio and IT facilities in our schools. Karen Waterston recently returned from Mongolia, where she ran an in-service teacher training course. Here she writes about how she adapted to her new working environment.

The power of an image often doesn’t lie in the image itself, but in its ability to trigger images and stories in the minds of our students and create a need and a desire to communicate. There are three types of images that I find particularly powerful as teaching tools.