I am not a great fan of gap-filling tasks to go with songs. If what we are intending is to test understanding or train students’
Category: Reading
summer series: three reading activities
Wrapping up the summer, this is the last post for the summer series before I start blogging again with new content. This time the focus
syntactic priming
Syntactic priming is the process that takes place when we make predictions upon hearing certain grammatical patterns which guide us to guess the string of
from reading passage to interview
Here is a highly productive and engaging way of getting the most out of a reading passage. The idea is for the students to first
connotation in songs
I have been listening to Sting’s last album 44/876 quite a lot recently and there are two songs that have particularly called my attention as
taking sides
This speaking activity gets students to make choices, take sides and use arguments and counter arguments to support their ideas. This is how it goes:
