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This post presents a simple economical yet effective worksheet to help your beginner English learners master the present simple tense through daily routines. You can download it in PDF or Word below. Downloads: The worksheet in PDF The worksheet in Word
Material: Reading passage (Article) Themes: Education, perseverance and determination, inspiration and motivation, lifelong learning, etc. Level: Pre-intermediate (1st and 2nd year baccalaureate students) Reading rubrics covered: Downloads: Handout (word version) Handout (PDF version)
Expressing certainty and uncertainty is one of the language functions that are used in everyday English. In this post, EFL Collective shares with you a free practical worksheet that you can use to teach these functions to your pre-intermediate learners. The worksheet includes well-thought of activities at every step of the lesson. To familiarize your…
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In this post, EFL Collective shares a new economical worksheet you can use to teach vocabulary related to sustainable development challenges and goals. It is mainly devised for pre-intermediate classes. You can kick off the lesson by brainstorming what your students already know about the topic, then have them read the website entry above to…
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EFL/ESL learners are advised to learn idioms as they are an essential part of the English language and are commonly used in daily conversations. Idioms can be difficult to understand for non-native speakers because they often have a figurative meaning, which is different from their literal meaning. However, learning idioms can help students understand native…
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The ultimate goal of the lesson is to equip students with the skill to decode phonetic symbols (consonant and vowel sounds) and ameliorate their English pronunciation as a result. To implicitly highlight the importance of studying phonetic transcription, the teacher sets out the lesson by giving students some challenging words (biscuit, xenophobia, climbing, island, etc.)…
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Language teachers sometimes have the tendency of providing edits when checking students’ pieces of writing. Because students’ mistakes in writing can sometimes be “provoking” in a way, language teachers are tempted to provide corrections instead of eliciting them. However, by providing edits, teachers can never be certain that students will not make the same mistakes…
In EFL reading classes, learners usually do tasks that only test their comprehension of the text. While it is helpful that learners maintain the habit of reading by doing a variety of comprehension tasks, we should also make sure that reading strategies are not overlooked. That is, instructors should not set learners to read just…
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One of the activities learners enjoy in EFL classes is speaking or watching videos about different cultural and life aspects of English-speaking countries like the UK and the US. They like to explore English native speakers’ lifestyles and cultures. In this post, EFL Collective shares with you an economical worksheet based on a video about…
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While it is recommended that students write reviews of their favourite films, it is also helpful if they watch a short film together in class, and then write about it. This way, we, as teachers, can explore how our learners see the same thing from different perspectives. In this post, EFL Collective suggests “Ah Boy”,…
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