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 ...

This supersedes this one here: http://acliltoclimb.blogspot.com/2009/08/dialogue-quiz-booking-into-hotel-pre.html You may also like this one: http://acliltoclimb.blogspot.com/2010/09/at-hotel.html

This supersedes this post: http://acliltoclimb.blogspot.com/2009/08/dialogue-at-airport-check-in-matching.html You may also like this one: http://acliltoclimb.blogspot.com/2010/03/at-airport-putting-dialogue-in-sequence.html

It would seem that quite a few games on dialogues published last year have disappeared from one of my file hosting sites, so I'll be recreating them and moving them to Google Sites. These are two parts of a dialogue on ordering a meal in a restaurant. It's also an idea to jumble the dialogue, and get the students to put them in order. Later, they ...

Last year, I published a game on a hotel reception dialogue. The file hosting site I used for the game had lost or deleted it since. So, I decided to redo it slightly, added a vocabulary question, and here it is.Remember that for this quiz, if you provide your email address, the results (and the correct answers) will be sent to you. However, ...

My original posts on dialogue at the airport check-in and at the passport control have been rather popular, so I decided to improve them slightly here. They have been combined into one quiz, and a matching vocabulary exercise has been added, too. If you provide a valid email address, the results of the quiz along with the correct answers will be ...

Do you have trouble making a telephone call in English? Do you get nervous when you don't understand the person on the other end? Are you familiar with most of  the basic telephone language? In this post, I will  try to help you improve your telephone skills; if you have any doubts, please don't hesitate to ask. Watch this short video and see if ...

As teachers, we have to be innovative,  to keep up with the times, so to speak. The days of teaching with a book, chalk and blackboard are long gone now. Every year, more and more schools are installing digital boards, more classes are having projectors and white boards, if not a screen, and it won't be long before every class will be equipped ...

In the posts, 'Ideas for the First Lesson' and 'Ideas for Practising Dialogues', I covered some activities which can be used to elicit students to speak. Here's another one, suitable for all levels, which is both a speaking and a vocabulary activity.I'm sure all of you must have heard of the odd one out game. The difference with this one is to ...

I'm trying my darnest to crack into the Chinese market, hehe. This has been done by Google translator, so I have no idea what it says! If you read Chinese, let me know if it makes sense at all! 你有一個對話的腳本，也許您希望自己編寫它，或許你想獲得它從另一來源，也許在這個博客，也許你的學生自己編寫了-因此，您做什麼之後， ？你告訴你的學生和實踐形式對，你去附近的一類配對，監測其產出，對不對？嗯，這裡有一些變化可以用香料行動。 *更改夥伴：他們執行的對話，以不同的合作夥伴或合作夥伴。 ...