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• Lesson idea: Kahoot! for capitalisation and punctuation

  By Pete on December 2, 2018 • ( 0 )

  

  A few months ago I mentioned word stress games using Kahoot! This app has also come in handy recently for practising punctuation/capitalisation. I just display a sentence with various errors in it– learners judge how many mistakes there are in… Read More ›

• Review: ELT Training Library (Language Fuel)

  By Pete on November 30, 2018 • ( 6 )

  

  I love a freebie! I‘ve just completed a two-week free trial of Language Fuel. Overall, I give it an ELTplanning thumbs up. Skip to the end for my overall thoughts…

• How sanitized is your coursebook?

  By Pete on November 23, 2018 • ( 8 )

  

  Tut! Coursebooks with their PARSNIP policy. You’ve literally given me nothing this term – not even a shred of controversy.

• 20 great video sites for the EFL classroom

  By Pete on November 19, 2018 • ( 12 )

  

  I was asked on my FB page where I find good videos for class. I stumble upon them now and then (like here, thanks Lana), but I also find these sources pretty useful. Hope this helps!

• Lesson idea: introducing recipes and cooking

  By Pete on November 16, 2018 • ( 6 )

  

  Here’s a simple idea for introducing recipes. Put these QR codes up around the room:

• Pronunciation articles for DipTESOL students

  By Pete on November 14, 2018 • ( 2 )

  

  I’m trying to persuade our DipTESOL students to engage with some pronunciation-related research. I’ve hand-picked these five articles for their relevance to our context (well, the last one is more general), and I’ll be sharing them with our candidates this… Read More ›

• Insight into a synthetic syllabus

  By Pete on November 12, 2018 • ( 4 )

  

  Views are my own in this post. I teach from a synthetic syllabus at my school and the following attributes are true of it…

• My tree octopus fake news fail

  By Pete on October 17, 2018 • ( 3 )

  

  Here’s one of my favourite things to write about – things that didn’t work! This is a request for ideas from Teacher James and others.

• Book review: Stories Without End

  By Pete on October 14, 2018 • ( 8 )

  

  Alphabet Publishing recently sent me a copy of Stories Without End by Taylor Sapp. Here’s a review and a bit about how I used the book…

• Twist on a classic: Harry the Hippo

  By Pete on September 25, 2018 • ( 1 )

  

  A nod to TESOLTOOLBOX here… Harry the Hippo is a fun guessing game to use in the class. It can be adapted for practicing various grammar structures. I can’t remember where I first played the game or who taught it… Read More ›