Teaching grammar is one of the most challenging tasks teachers face. Therefore, it is of great importance to prepare a language analysis sheet while covering grammar topics to be well-prepared in terms of concept checking questions and anticipated problems to maximize the student’s involvement in the process. It would be easier for the teacher to...
Apart from teaching regular classes, we also conduct language clubs from time to time in order to boost the confidence of the learners to use the target language in more real life, ad-hoc situations. Moreover, if classes target a specific group of people enrolled in the course, language clubs give us the opportunity to work...
More and more teenagers now start their Cambridge exam journey early. They don’t opt for FCE to be their first language exam ever, instead they move step by step. A2 Key might seem too easy, B1 Preliminary – not that necessary, but, in fact, they do not just check the language knowledge of your students....
On the 25th of January, Student’s Day, also known as Tatiana’s Day in Russia, will be celebrated. The history of this holiday is connected with Empress Elizabeth who endorsed petition about the establishment of the first university in Russia, Moscow in 1755. This date wasn’t chosen by chance. In the Russian Orthodox Church, January 25th...
Again a writing assignment, so boring and time-consuming. This may be one of the reactions (and in most cases the only reaction) to a written task assigned by the teacher. Things get worse when the tasks are for academic writing (writing reports, business proposals, official mails/letters, essays, papers, articles. etc). Here we will present some...
I believe each of us has been there during different language classes, discussion clubs and foreign language events when we were speaking and the audience (the students) had no idea of what was going on. We have all been in two minds on whether we should actually speak in a way so that the students...
The topic of prepositions is considered to be one of the most challenging and difficult ones for ESL learners. The reasons are quite different: some students always try to translate and compare it with their native language thus fail in choosing the correct preposition, some don’t really like all these ‘small words’ and others just...
The whole world is shocked by the unexpected decision of Prince Harry and his wife Meghan Markle. They said they are going to “abdicate” as they want to spend more time with their son, to launch their own charity project and to move to North America. This topic worths discussing. Why not create a lesson...
Teaching English tenses in primary school requires great efforts and lots of practice. While Present and Past Simple Tenses may seem not too hard for the kids, learning Present Perfect does take plenty of time. Hence, if you work with kids, you should pay more attention to teaching this tense and make it entertaining. Fun...
After Christmas holidays it is always hard to go back to usual routines, especially to studies. Therefore, as teachers, we need to think of such activities that will not overload students when they are back to classes in January. Here, we have topped some lesson ideas which will work great for the beginning of January....
