If you want to have some fun during these last classes and happen to be dealing with the topic of Education and your groups need to revise for verb tenses and some work on reported speech, this is for you. I’ve just set up an escape room (for the first time because I’m doing a…… Continue reading B1-B2 Escape Room Virus at Cruncham Hall
I just can’t get over this Matilda scene. Not only do I find it hilarious, but also sort of empowering. I love to use a short extract from films in my classes and I use this one as a reported speech activity. For this scene, I usually give my students a sheet of paper with…… Continue reading B2.1 Listening: Matilda scene – Bruce and the Chocolate Cake as a reported speech activity
Just for a bit of fun and to encourage my B2.1 students to practise asking questions related to housework using the song “The Boy Does Nothing” by Alesha Dixonand while also learning how to use ‘nothing’ and dropping the habit of leaving out ‘do/does’ in questions. By engaging with these questions, students can deepen their…… Continue reading Learning English with songs: Alesha Dixon – The Boy Does Nothing
If you are not sure what a quantifier is, it’s one of those ‘small words’ that usually come with nouns to give us information related to number (some, any, all, both, etc). No can be used instead of using a form of the verb ‘be’. We can say there aren’t any biscuits or there are no…… Continue reading B1/B2 NO as a quantifier
Here’s a slide lesson on conditionals that I put together for tomorrow’s class. Flip through the slides to view the zero, first, second and third conditional.
From Gifer Right! Time to roll our sleeves up and learn something about verb patterns! Well actually, one neverleaves this until death and does some work on verb patterns during the year, but the truth is, few students pay too much attention to this aspect of the English language. Anyway, we’re working on it right…… Continue reading Harry Potter-based quiz: verbs with infinitive forms and -ing
If you are at odds with your tenses, in this short lesson, you’ll see the main differences that exists between the past simple and the past continuous. Just go through the slides and read the examples.
These words are often found confusing for learners of English, so here are a few tips with examples on how at use them within the context of the present perfect.
Here’s a quick class on quantifiers. Serena’s blog
Here’s a quick activity for learners to practise words such as: a few, few, a little, little, some, any, much, many, lot’s of and no. Read the text and choose the correct word.
