What is it like to play a Kahoot? This post includes the basic screens that students see: Game pin Nickname Waiting for the question Options Waiting for results Feedback Game Pin – The first screen. No possible confusion. Here students …
Socrative is very user-friendly, both for teachers and students. Nevertheless, it may be good to give students a short user guide so that they can concentrate on the exercise without having to worry about how the app or website works. …
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Spanish and Catalan speakers tend to overuse “for” when expressing purpose in English, especially before verbs. Awareness-raising and practice is needed in order to foster the correct use of the infinitive of purpose. The following video, by the charity Team …
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I used the following mystery picture with pre-intermediate students towards the middle of the course. We had been talking about homes and about country and city life, so I thought it would be a good way to see what they …
Pictures can illustrate vocabulary very well. Sometimes we’re not sure whether the picture will elicit from students the words we have in mind. In this case, the aim was to elicit and teach more than a dozen adjectives to express …