Get your students to bring English into the classroom
Posted on11 Dec 2016
English is all around. Certainly here in Spain. Walk into any big clothes shop, and you’ll find English on the front of... Read More
Cambridge English Development Programme 2017
Posted on05 Dec 2016
In 2016, I began a new stage in my career – being a tutor on the Cambridge English Development Programme. I thoroughly... Read More
8Way Thinking Questions for Describing photos in Cambridge English: Preliminary Speaking
Posted on29 Nov 2016
In many ways, the describe-the-photo-task in the Cambridge English: Preliminary Speaking Test is probably one of the most difficult tasks of any... Read More
Barcelona here I come!
Posted on18 Nov 2016
Just checking the last details before I get in the car to drive to Bilbao, then fly to Barcelona. No flights to... Read More
Classroom Wait time, Think time and Rehearse Time
Posted on17 Nov 2016
Recently the subject of wait time has cropped up again and again when I’ve been researching the subject of questions and questioning... Read More
More creative question activities – Colours
Posted on14 Nov 2016
In today’s post, I’m going to share two activities based around colours. Both are in pdf documents, which you should be able... Read More
Sharing creative activities from It’s a question of ACEIA Conference session
Posted on12 Nov 2016
Here are some of the questions activities that I demonstrated in my session on questions today at the ACEIA Conference in Seville:... Read More
Activities for practising questions
Posted on12 Nov 2016
In this post, I’m going to share some activities for working on questions. In this case, I mean activities of working on... Read More
Questions quotes
Posted on10 Nov 2016
Today, I’m sharing some of my favourite question quotes. I’m polishing my workshop session at the Seville at the ACEIA Conference: Creative Minds... Read More
Movers class – live and online!
Posted on03 Nov 2016
My first experience of teaching Movers live and online has just finished. I was here in Spain and my students were in... Read More