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This is a lesson plan on articles for upper intermediate students. It is inspired by one of Scott Thornbury’s grammar activities in his excellent book: How to teach grammar, 1999. Although using a deductive...
Third conditional lesson plan This is a third conditional lesson plan. It aims at presenting and practicing the form and use of the third conditional. It adopts a discovery procedure in teaching grammar and...
Grammarly review Grammarly is an application for checking grammar, spelling, and punctuation. The application aims at improving students, bloggers, writers, and professionals’ writing skills. Grammarly can be also used to check plagiarism. How is...
Drilling This article is about drilling in English language teaching, a technique that is still being used by many teachers although it has been discredited in modern methods. The article will try to discuss...
Arguments against grammar syllabus This is a video where Scott Thornbury is arguing against a grammar syllabus. He contends that there are eight arguments that compel us to reject such syllabus. Scott’s Eight arguments...
How to Teach the Future Perfect This is a lesson plan about how to teach the present perfect. It is designed for advanced learners and is intended to make students notice the form and...
Like in Questions (Lesson Plan) Using like in questions in English may be confusing for beginners and pre-intermediate students. Firstly, like has two grammatical functions; it may be used as a verb or as...
How to teach the past perfect It is easier to teach the past perfect than to teach the present perfect. The past perfect is clearly situated in the past. This can even be represented...
Learning theories / Linguistics
by MOHAMMED RHALMI · Published October 17, 2014 · Last modified April 17, 2016
Construction grammar Construction Grammar refers to a study of language that views grammar not as a collection of rules that generates sentences (as in generative grammar) but as a continuum involving both syntax and...
Grammar Review Lesson Plan This is a lesson plan designed to review the grammar points taught to beginners in previous lessons. It may be assigned to students at the end or at the beginning...
