Teaching & Learning English
Check out the Ducksters website for plenty of reading about different topics. This is a useful resource for ELA/ESL/EFL students to help build their English vocabulary range and learn basic knowledge about our world. https://www.ducksters.com/ Happy reading and vocabulary building!
This is a useful website for those of you who need to practise your grammar and vocabulary: Use of English – Test-English How to use the site Select your test (A1 is easiest, then A2, B1, B2 and C1 is the most difficult). After you select your answers, click the ‘Check Answers’ button and you’ll … Read more
We’ve been a bit late getting the Christmas season started at home this year, but here’s last year’s seasonal painting: I’ll be painting a cheeky new picture this year and will share once it’s completed.
This art was inspired by an old pizza delivery box that I used to protect the floor during a previous painting project. Since the bulk of the pigment that had bled onto the box was GREEN, I thought it might make a nice background for a GREEN GATORS artwork. Twenty minutes later, the crudely sketched … Read more
This article presents a self-study strategy for students preparaing for the IELTS Writing test by reading about the common topics and studying the language typically used to discuss those subjects. Whilst I intend to do more research into this and publish the results to help my students, the recent advances in AI tools means this … Read more
Education is a basic right, but many poor children in rural India do not get a good education … Picture Source: https://www.forbesindia.com/article/briefing/primary-education-in-india-needs-a-fix/35287/1 Problem Education is a basic right, but many poor children in rural India do not get a good education. This is a big problem for the children and for the future of the … Read more
I have been doing a lot of research into assessing student-led seminars recently. Here is a QR code that can take you to an article I wrote about this research. My latest seminar sessions have been as productive as the earlier ones and working with students who are readily able to articulate their ideas in … Read more
This post introduces a pedagogical approach I have been pioneering that might usefully contribute to discussions of transforming learning spaces to increase student ownership within the English for Academic Purposes (EAP) classroom.
This page is set up to help students explore the use of the BAWE corpus as a tool for informing vocabulary choices in academic writing. The examples below come from either common errors in student writing or questions my students have asked about specific lexicogrammar features of English. If you search for words or phrases … Read more
This is additional reading material for the Animation degree programme at QUST/Bradford It is uncontroversial to say that reading is probably the best way to extend your vocabulary and the more you read, the greater your vocabulary will be This week’s reading text features various quotes and expressions so does not contain so much AWL … Read more
The exercises below are intended to help students learn the words from the first four sublists of the AWL Choose the correct form of the word to complete the passage The gaps are all words from the AWL sublists 1-5; the words in blue bold are also from the AWL These exercises focus on the correct … Read more
Here is the eleventh set of 30 words from the AWL sublists. They are the first 30 words from AWL sublist 6. We are on 6/10 so well over half way now 🙂 You should try to learn these words in preparation for a test in class next week. In addition to learning the meaning … Read more