Error Correction Games for Writing is a collection of fun activities which help students to identify their own errors and avoid making them in the future. Students enthusiastically compete to correct each other’s errors leaving no papers to take home to correct.
Getting Students to Do Your Prep is a great collection of universal games and activities for getting students to prepare materials for other classroom games and activities, which will make lesson planning easier and classes more student-centred.
Giving Good Instructions features tips and techniques to help teachers set up tasks clearly and effectively as well as a guide for checking understanding of grammar and vocabulary with concept check questions.
Grammar Made Simple provides an overview of grammar that will make it easier to teach and easier for the students to understand. It deals with time, tense, aspect and mood and provides teachers with simple single sentence explanations for the so-called “verb tenses”.
No Prep Grammar Lessons provides teachers with a formula for teaching student- centred grammar lessons involving very little preparation or materials.
No Prep Listening Lessons provides teachers with a formula for teaching student- centred grammar lessons involving very little preparation or materials. The formula is based on a combination of PPP and Test-Teach-Test.
Product, Process and Genre provides an explanation of these three approaches to teaching writing and includes a large collection of activities which can be combined in a lesson to feature the best aspects of each approach.
Task-Based Learning is based on the Willis model but provides other variations of the task-based framework, including one which can be used with virtually no preparation or planning.
Teaching Collocations features a brief look at the theory behind collocations and a collection of activities and games to help students notice and acquire them.
Teaching Reading Strategies features a collection of activities and games which don’t simply test reading comprehension but instead give students techniques to become better readers.
Teaching Speaking Sub-skills features a collection of over 30 activities broken down into 10 sub-skills to actually teach students something about speaking.
Ten Common Teaching Problems is based on feedback from over a dozen observers who identified the most prevalent teaching problems. Fifty easily-implemented solutions are offered to improve classes significantly.
The Lexical Approach provides an explanation of this revolutionary but easily implemented way of language teaching with a great collection of original or adapted universal activities which can be used to provide a lexical focus in any lesson.
The Perfect Present Perfect Lesson demonstrates a lesson framework, teaching techniques and student activities that make teaching the present perfect easy and are applicable to other grammar points as well.
Warmers and Icebreakers points out the value of using these fun, student-centred activities and includes a guide to creating them. The handout includes over 100 universal activities which can be matched to any type of lesson.
Word Formation Games is a collection of reusable games designed to help students expand their vocabulary by using prefixes and suffixes. Workshop Highlights features an introduction to some of our most popular workshops and a great classroom activity from each one.
Universal Activities consists of 26 multi-purpose activities which can be used whenever grammar or vocabulary are taught. These activities eliminate the need to consult resource books for practice activities.