Folk music and folk song
When I was younger (much younger), New Year in Britain was usually heralded on the TV with a programme known as The White Heather Club, which had a lot of people in kilts singing...
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Lower primary classroom management
How to tame students? Many fledgling primary teachers very quickly realize that, whatever excellent teaching ideas they have, their lessons just don’t go the way they have planned them. It is very often caused...
Binary oppositions and the concept of love in Wuhering Heights and Tess of the d’Urbervilles
Emily Brontë and Thomas Hardy are both considered great novelists born in the Victorian era, and although their works which I am going to discuss display different features (Wuthering Heights being written at the...
FISH & CHIPS – cultural focus
Lesson based on a video Level(s): (B1/B2) Intermediate/Upper-Intermediate Aimed at: Teenagers/young adults/adults Aims: Listening for specific information/ Speaking Materials: Dictionaries/Worksheet 1/ video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vXbMzsi8rOM Time: +/- 1h Have the students work in pairs and...
Once upon a time… – creative writing
How to make an interesting use of Past Simple and Past Continuous? How to make writing pleasant? Introduce creative writing to your lessons! Level: Pre-Intermediate, Intermediate Aimed at: Teenagers Aims: Past Simple and Past...
Literature in the English classroom
As a keen reader I would like to see more literature in the English classroom. There is a wide market of readers available for use during the lessons, however, the real challenge is to...
“My dream destination …”
When preparing your students for end-of-school exam you sometimes feel bored with revising, doing listening exercises, drilling grammar and doing multiple choice tests. Don’t worry! Your students feel the same! Therefore, work on something...
Upgrade your English: Internet, Teens and Texting
A few years ago in UK, there was a huge outcry in the media about a Scottish student who, when asked to write about her summer holidays, wrote the whole thing in text-speak (or...
