How to do well in Pre-A1 Starters Reading and Writing Part 4
Posted on19 Dec 2017
In this post, I’ll be sharing some insights and tips to help your students do Starters Reading and Writing Part 4. As... Read More
Spot it! Where can you use it?
Posted on06 May 2017
Last weekend at APPI in Lisbon, as teachers came in to attend my Spot it! Cambridge English: Young Learners session, they were... Read More
Tips for Key, Preliminary, First, Advanced & Proficiency Listening Part 1 – Multiple choice tasks
Posted on29 Apr 2017
Today I’m going to share tips for Multiple choice tasks in this, my first post on Tips for Listening. I have just given... Read More
New words at Starters for 2018
Posted on24 Mar 2017
I’m currently in the Czech Republic, sharing ideas on training students to notice and spot similarities, differences, features, and many more things... Read More
Can you spot it? Cambridge webinar
Posted on03 Mar 2017
Enjoy my webinar: Can you spot it? You can watch the recording of the webinar here: Can you spot it?: Encouraging observation... Read More
Cambridge English: A2 Key (for Schools) Part 5 -Taking it (several) steps further
Posted on06 Feb 2017
Today, I’m going to share some activities for taking a gap fill text from Part 5 Key/Key for Schools and using it... Read More
Considerations for planning a short exam course
Posted on26 Jan 2017
Just a very quick post today (early start and 2 1/4 hour drive there then back to give today’s seminar. So, I... Read More
Going to start a course for the Cambridge B2 First, C1 Advanced or C2 Proficiency? Play the board game!
Posted on25 Jan 2017
Today I wanted to share a board game I’ve made for using with the start of a preparation course for Cambridge B2... Read More
Collated tips on marking
Posted on23 Jan 2017
I thought I’d share some different ways that teacher can mark written work. As you may have gathered from my posts on... 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