Yesterday, I wrote a short grammar post related to all-clefts, so today we’ll be dealing with another similar content that we also use for emphasis. But first, let’s listen to this song from times when my mum would have been jiving on a dance floor, enjoying the time of her life. 😁😁😁 Like mother like…… Continue reading B2/C1 ‘What’ clefts Listening to The Romantics What I Like About You
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
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
