Teaching – Teaching
A traveling teachers toolkit
Language teaching when you have no home base to store books, and tools for audio-visual activities can be difficult. Here are the tools I use.
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Prompts – Conversation prompts
Solving tricky problems
A speaking or writing exercise to propose solutions to tricky problems. This uses both modal verbs (could, should, would), and conditional sentences, so is better for intermediate classes and above.
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Vocabulary – Vocabulary
Words for basic office supplies
This is a beginner vocabulary exercise that is very popular with my adult business English students.
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Vocabulary – Vocabulary
Spelling checkers for language learners
When learning a new language, it can be tempting to rely on the automatic spelling checkers to correct your words. That may not be such a good idea with this poem!
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Vocabulary – Vocabulary
Learning dialog tags
While few of these dialogue tags are used in spoken language, you'll find them in any fiction book you read. How many do you know?
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Vocabulary – Vocabulary
20 Cooking and food idioms
Even beginners are faced with idioms if they travel to an English speaking country for a holiday. That’s why it’s important to include idioms in all levels of language courses.
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Prompts – Writing prompts
Complaints
Everyone has something to complain about. Sometimes something will annoy you enough to write a letter or email.
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Teaching – Teaching and learning
Bite-sized language prompts for students and teachers
I hold multiple classes for students learning English as a foreign language, so I need to come up with topics that both interest the students, yet focus on specific (small) aspects of grammar.
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