This is a good an excuse as any to listen to a good song, and, at the same time, be reminded of the suffering the great nation had to endure earlier this year. Why not use this video as a springboard for a class discussion on natural disasters, for example? You might like to read this post on activities using songs.

In We Are The Champions, I wrote about several ideas you could do with songs in the classroom, so if you'd missed it, you ought to take a look now. Warm-up Play the video, freeze it when Paul McCartney can be seen. Ask if anyone knows him, what they know: the group he belonged to, the instrument he plays, the period the song was written, ...

Geocam has, at the moment, over 1000 cameras stationed throughout the world, constantly streaming images to your computer. You navigate around Geocam as you would in Google Maps. See the image above. Since it's streaming live, it's perfect as a tool to get students speaking in the present continuous. Be warned that since it's streaming images, ...

Here's another quiz for you to practise your simple past tense, but this time, it's focussed on questions. Remember that the correct answer is always given; so if you get it wrong, try to understand your error and keep on doing the quiz! Teachers, please note that if students provide a valid email, the results will be automatically sent to it.

An easy past simple quiz to help you with your revision. Remember that the correct answer is always given; so if you get it wrong, try to understand your error and keep on doing the quiz!

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 ...

Most learners of English have problems pronouncing past tenses correctly. Fortunately, there are only three different ways of pronouncing the ending of regular verbs, which can be expressed by the phonetic symbols of /id/, /d/ and /t/. Even more fortunately is that of the three, the sound of /id/ is the most obvious, and also the easiest to ...

The infinitive form of a verb will be shown at the bottom of the game screen. You then have to click on its past tense/past participle form which appears above. Before you click to start each level, read the past tense forms first. See how fast you can go, and try to get to Level 6! Each time you play, there will be a different selection, so play ...