Fun Animal Idioms Guide
Fun Animal Idioms Guide
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Fun Animal Idioms Guide
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Sports idioms are some of the most energetic expressions in the English language. When someone tells you a project is down to the wire, that a rival hit below the belt, or that a strange idea came out of left field, you rarely need to know the sport to feel the meaning. These phrases carry…
At minute twelve of a B1 lesson last spring, half my class had quietly stopped speaking. They were copying answers from each other’s notebooks and waiting for the bell. Two weeks after I swapped the comprehension worksheet for a pair of mismatched train timetables, the same students were arguing about departure times in English. That…
Teaching listening skills works best in three stages: pre-listening prediction, gist-then-detail while listening, and a post-listening speaking task. Here are 8 methods that build real comprehension.
English has ten especially common family idioms: blood is thicker than water, flesh and blood, like father like son, runs in the family, the spitting image, the black sheep of the family, skeletons in the family closet, a close-knit family, follow in your parents’ footsteps, and keep it in the family. Each describes a bond,…
Total Physical Response is the language method James Asher invented in 1965. Here’s how TPR works, 25 activities, a lesson plan, and when to skip it.
Seven ESL games built for teenagers, not toddlers: Running Dictation, Spy Games, Kahoot quizzes, Balloon Grammar Pop, Survivor Debate, Bamboozle boards, and Silent Lineups.