Category «VIDEO ACTIVITIES»

16 present perfect songs

This is a 10-minute video meant to remind you of / introduce you to songs containing the present perfect. Once you’ve picked the ones you like / your students might like (or have fun trashing), you can google up the lyrics and look up the video clip on Youtube. Have fun. By the way, the video …

Linguistic intuition

There’s a very interesting discussion taking place on Scott Thornbury’s blog right now, sparked by his brilliant “feel” post. The central question he attempts to address is one which has been incessantly nagging at me for at least fifteen years: What’s the role of linguistic intuition in language learning?

ESL textbooks – the current orthodoxy

What do modern EFL/ESL textbooks look like? This is a post I wrote before I became a full time author, back in 2011.  Over the past few months I’ve analyzed dozens of EFL / ESL textbooks (I’m using the terms interchangeably) put out by the mainstream publishing houses. For better and for worse, all these …

Test your English: gerund or infinitive after “to”?

Here’s another post in the test your English series. This one focuses on the use of the gerund or infinitive after the word to. Look at the sentences below. Would you use go or going to complete each one? 1. No, you didn’t wake me up. I am used to _____ to bed late. Don’t …