Recently, after teaching a group of teachers with another teacher, I had some not-so-great feedback: "The 2nd teacher didn't gi...

Type up a list of your students' most common errors into a word or googledoc, project on to the wall and get them to have a gander. Do...

Along with encouraging co-construction and emergent language, the practice of dogme calls for, via scaffolding, there be a focus a form and...

That's it really. Draw this on the board or on a big piece of paper or click on the photograph and print that out.... The first few...

I get it, I do, that in a lot of cultures this particular picture would be shocking. So I'm not going to ask the ELT publishers to be ...

Sean Banville's excellent blog post questions the practice of teaching adverbs of frequency with things like how often do you brush yo...

Carola's Vegetarian Casserole I'm sure most of you already do this, especially if you're an ESOL teacher with lots of stude...

Their eyes met across the crowded teacher’s room.  She had never seen him before.  He must be a new hire to replace Crazy Steve , she t...

"Pick a card, any card. Share with us what you heard in the news today /this week/ this month..." "Interesting!  I di...

Probably one of the easiest, getting-back-in-the-groove, sans materials, dogmesque lesson I can think of: Step 1 Write 2009 on the board A...

One of the absolute best supplementary books to use when teaching banking or financial types is Financial English by Ian MacKenzie. Howe...

Like all issues of great importance there are those who believe in one thing and there are those who believe in another. Personally, I rec...

If you and your students have been following the Susan Boyle saga (and did the lesson plan ) then you'll know that she didn't win th...

Do you know where I get a lot of my ideas for teaching Business English? The blogs. Nope, not the teaching English blogs, although th...