Author: Derek Strange Publisher: Oxford University Press Details: Paperback; 80 pages; Pub.2006 ISBN: 0194728013 This activity book is part of the new edition of the ever popular Chatterbox course for young beginners (7yrs and older). A complete comic-strip adventure...
Let's suppose you are in your beginner level TEFL class and - for the purposes of this explanation - it's time to introduce them to adjectives. You could simply say: “An adjective is a word that modifies a noun or a pronoun. To modify a word is to describe the word...
He Said She Said Circle is a simple activity for students to practice their reported speech (also known as indirect speech). Ideally you should run this activity after a lesson where students have been working on reported speech. If not, you should quickly run over...
One common question asked by people wanting to teach English abroad is, "Do I need to speak the local language?" "I'm going to teach English in Korea - do I need to speak Korean?" "I'm going to teach English in Greece - do I need to speak Greek?" "I'm going to teach...
An Independent Clause looks just like a short sentence and follows the usual English pattern for sentences: The door opened. We won! I love cats. But... while a sentence stands on its own, an independent clause sits inside another sentence. For example, those...
Using the students’ MT in a TEFL class was be the basis behind the grammar-translation method, which was largely rejected as ineffective during the middle part of the last century. Researchers and teachers discovered that translating into the MT as a teaching method...
Betty Azar is a teacher and the author of several English grammar workbooks that are very popular amongst English grammar enthusiasts. Her approach is in-depth and thorough and she is a proponent of the Grammar Based Approach Despite no formal training in TEFL she...
A Synonym is a word which has almost exactly the same meaning as another word. For example: student - pupil old - ancient Note: Compare this with antonyms which are words of opposite meanings. In English, there are no perfect synonyms. Two words may be very similar...
EFL is an acronym we use to talk about English as a Foreign Language. EFL students are students learning English as a foreign language, that is, as a language other than their mother tongue or primary language. EFL students usually live in non English speaking...
Jeremy P. H. Harmer was born in 1947. He is a popular ELT author, practitioner and trainer. Harmer was educated in the United Kingdom and graduated from the University of East Anglia with a BA Hons in English and American Studies. He then pursued his MA in Applied...
