Google is just so useful, isn't it?  But did you know that you can get your adult Business English students looking for their own data, ...

Is anyone wandering about the planet with your name? What do they do? Where do they live? Do they have a better job, make more money than ...

The other day when I was reading Nick Jaworski's blog postings on using the Teacher as the Narrative in EFL classes, I left a comment b...

What is your secret ambition? If you could go back in time, do something else or be someone else what would you do? What do you still hope ...

So there I was in Stuttgart Airport, minding my own business, dipping in and out of the book on randomness (T he Black Swan ) recommended to...

If you've been reading my blog postings for a while now then you'll already know that I'm a big fan of slideshare and even have ...

Have you heard of Word Clouds? Wordle is a great site that allows you to create word clouds out of a text. You can use this to pre-tea...

Part 2 of the Art of Teaching Conversation To Language Learners. To read part 1 first come here. Last night, after a tough day presenting a ...

If you just read the posting above on how important motivation is as a factor in teaching fluency to your language learners and you watched...

Part one: the art of teaching conversation to language learners Starting off with the basics is probably a very good place to kick off thi...

Yep, that's me. And yup, that's Obama in the background. Really, it's not photo-shopped. It was taken in Berlin during the big s...

UPDATE 8Mar09 - this lesson plan now has an additional animated video which can you use to discuss process with students -especially good if...

Do you occasionally use news articles with your English language students? Do your prefer using newspapers or do you like searching for arti...