Pronunciation – textploitation: Recent Episodes
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In 2019, I remember going to a talk by Peter Watkins and one thing he said really stuck with me. I’m paraphrasing but it was essentially that what students needed in the early days of (and indeed throughout) the language learning process was lots and lots of comprehensible input. At the time it really struck … Continue reading Textploitation for students has arrived
Let me start by saying I love Christmas. Absolute love it, can’t get enough of it. Keep that in mind when I say the following: MY MOST HATED TIME OF THE WHOLE ENGLISH LANGUAGE TEACHING YEAR IS CHRISTMAS! I can’t stand it. I have always hated teaching at this time of year largely because of … Continue reading EFL Christmas Grinch
It’s been a while since we have put any new lessons up but for a very very good reason, which will become apparent in about March 2020. I couldn’t resist putting up a Christmas lesson and what better to focus on around this period but memories. I know there are many who don’t celebrate Christmas … Continue reading Christmas Memories: Used to / Would
So, the inspiration for this came yesterday at the Pearson Amazing Minds day in London. Ken Beatty mentioned this story and as he put up one of the direct quotations, I found myself just looking at the past tenses thinking, “ooooh, lesson”. I really am that dull. The lesson itself is fairly standard textploitation. We … Continue reading Reading and tense discovery: “I caught a falling baby”.
This is going to be the first in a mini series of lessons on connotations. Why bother looking at connotations? Well, there are a few reasons, firstly, for students being able to say precisely what they mean without misunderstanding is key. Secondly, can you really know a word without understanding the implications its use has … Continue reading Connotations
So, I have been teaching modals recently and I wanted to make modals of deduction a little more interesting. Voila: here we go. This lesson has a lot of reading, which should give the opportunity for some past tense work as well as lexis. It’s a murder mystery and the students work out who did … Continue reading Modals of deduction – A murder – Part 1 & 2
So, over the years I’ve taught countless presentation lessons. I’ve tackled them from many different sides. I’ve looked at linking words, planning and creating successful Powerpoint slideshows but what I noticed is that no matter how much planning went into the presentation or how much of the target language they used or even how well … Continue reading Presentations: the pronunciation
Some of the more eagle-eyed among you may recognise the title from another lesson that we have done. This one seeks to differ though in its focus on future forms. There is also a focus pronunciation, intonation in the first listening and connected speech in the second. The idea for this came, as so many … Continue reading One-sided phone calls
Look, the fact is we just can’t resist a Bowie lesson. There it is, plain and simple (If you missed our previous one, you can check it out here) and I can’t promise that this one will be the last Bowie lesson we ever do. In fact, I can almost guarantee you that there will be … Continue reading Bowie: Pronunciation in songs
I wrote the ‘tense review with the stones’ lesson a couple of weeks ago: https://textploitationtefl.com/2016/05/09/tense-review-with-the-rolling-stones/ and here, as promised, is the follow up! It is intended as a short follow up, so shouldn’t take too long, but focuses on listening and picking things out from the song. Rather than picking this song for its specific … Continue reading Paint it Black – Listening lesson