Jan 26, 2015 Exploiting Exercises, Resources Exploiting self-study phrasal verb exercises in the classroom I’m very pleased today to be able to respond to the first request we’ve had in from a visitor. Patrick Gallagher has written to ask for ideas on how to tackle what’s essentially self-study material that students would probably do for homework – namely, the excellent English Phrasal Verbs In Use Advanced by Michael McCarthy […]
Dec 22, 2014 Core Principles, Resources 1 Lexis is more important than grammar Absolutely central to lexical teaching is a view of language. A starting point on the road towards understanding this view is the commonly stated observation that without grammar you can say little, but without vocabulary you can say nothing. Take the following sequence of words. What do you think is being communicated? want see film […]
Dec 1, 2014 Exploiting Exercises, Resources Patterns beyond the past simple The following grammar exercise on the past simple is from our book Outcomes Elementary (National Geographic Learning). Students complete the sentences with the correct past simple form of verbs given in brackets at the end of sentences – resulting in the following. 1 I had lunch with my parents. 2 I went to the beach […]
