Teaching vocabulary: five useful tips

In an EFL / ESL context, what if teaching vocabulary is actually not the same as teaching new words? Here are 5 tips to help you. Up until fairly recently, I didn’t pay too much attention to how I taught vocabulary. My main concern was to help students understand and produce grammatical structures as accurately …

Teaching adults: I felt like an alien

Teaching adults… This is a post I’ve been stalling on for weeks, but, difficult to write as it is, I can’t put it on hold anymore. I’d like to begin by sharing three seemingly unrelated anecdotes which, by the end of the post, will hopefully have made some sort of sense.

1-minute “should have” presentation

Here’s a one-minute video to help you present should have. There are grammar discovery questions on the screen, but you might want to show students the actual scene only and devise your own questions.

Role playing: haggling in English

Haggling is obviously culture-specific, so this post might make more or less sense to you depending on where you’re from. But if you teach students who are familiar with the concept of haggling, here’s a fun video you can use for role playing in class: