Once in a while I read something and I find myself thinking, ''Now, why didn't I think of that?''. Well, Richard Gresswell had such an idea. He started a blog, called it ELTBITES, and challenged us: ''Describe an activity that requires no more than the teacher, students, and possibly making use of the board, pens, and paper. Describe the activity ...

A few weeks ago, I suggested some ideas for a lesson based on a close-up image - if you've missed it, I suggest you read that first. Click here to read it.I snapped this shot today, and I thought I'd share some more ideas with you all. Between this and the previous article, I think you'll get an idea how you can start your students speaking on any ...

Need some novel way to enliven your class? The traditional way of practising dialogue is to have students work in pairs (or groups), prepare their dialogues, then role-play them, maybe in front of the classroom. Instead of doing that, why don't you get them to prepare a comic strip first (after working on expressions, vocabulary, etc., of course). ...

Teachers, please take note: some of my quizzes, like this one, for example, ask for an email. If an email is provided, the results will be sent automatically to it. This allows you to grade/check your students' progress. If you haven't got an email for this purpose, I'd suggest creating one for this purpose, and ask the students to provide that ...

More practice on the present continuous tense. Click on the image to begin the quiz. Some may find these easier than the previous one:  http://acliltoclimb.blogspot.com/2010/03/present-continuous-activities.html Teachers, please take note: some of my quizzes, like this one, for example, ask for an email. If an email is provided, the results will ...

Adverbs of frequency tell us how often something happens. There are plenty of them, but the minimum you need to know are the following: never-->sometimes-->often-->usually-->always If you grade them on a scale from 0 to 5, never is on grade 0 and always is on grade 5. We usually put these frequency adverbs before the main verb, but after the verb ...

This is an activity where what you see is a set or words in random order. What you have to do is to arrange them in the correct order. When you have done that, email me with your answers, and I'll correct them. The activity is in a PowerPoint presentation hosted in Scribd. You can move from slide to slide interactively by just clicking on the ...