Hi there! My students need to work on connected speech rather than just isolated items, so we’re going to shift the focus to structures such as clefts and so on. ‘Clefts’ sounds like a serious thing, but it basically relates to sentences that start with an ‘unusual word, usually for emphasis. There are different types…… Continue reading B2/C1 All Cleft Sentences All I Wanna Do IS Have Some Fun
I was so depressed when I saw the contents related to the Past Perfect. The Past Perfect Continuous was equally disheartening. I thought I had to do something much more interesting. After all, why can’t grammar be interesting or even amazing? So I found some inspiration from Cristina Cabal’s lesson using a Heyzine flipping book…… Continue reading B2 An Interactive Lesson on the Tower of London, Grammar, and Mystery
Learning how to describe clothes is essential for speaking about fashion and style. So, in this lesson, we’ll explore the correct order of adjectives when describing clothing and practice using this rule effectively. In this post I will include: vocabulary related to materials and patterns adjectives to relate to styles word order related to adjectives…… Continue reading B2 Adjective Order for Fashion Descriptions
Here you have a cheat sheet for these two confusing structures, along with a couple of tips on when to use each one. You also have a little quiz below.
This is a short post with a list of situations in which we would use the to-infinitive in English. This does not include more complex structures such as passives, for example, as it aims to cover the basics for now. Later on, I’m going to post -ing forms and the bare infinitive form, but in…… Continue reading B2 Grammar: to-infinitive cheat sheet
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 HallÂ
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
I asked ChatGPT to write a couple of anecdotes about weddings, and this is what he, she or it came up with. I’ve turned them into CPTE activities for my B2.1s, You have a word formation, an open cloze and a drag-and-drop.
