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Playing With Sentences by Simon Mumford Menu Find the main verb Possible or impossible Work it out Swapping words around Sentence story Sentence clock Threes Silent sentences Buying words Sentence puzzle Introduction Most teachers know word games but sentence-level games are rarer. However, students can have as much fun with the order of words in… Read more »

What is IT? Paul Emmerson Introduction I feel that I know enough about marketing, finance, operations, production, HR, etc to enter the students’ world at the beginning of the course – for example to ask a few intelligent questions when they introduce themselves. However this is not the case – at least for me –… Read more »

Report from the frontline of IBE #1 by Paul Emmerson Introduction This is the first in a series of occasional articles. My idea is to report briefly on International Business English (IBE) following a situation where I have been exposed to it via my students. In this first report, I write about my experience last… Read more »

L1 in the classroom: Keep Your Friends Close by Saidaly Ibarra Throughout language teaching history, the students’ mother tongue (L1) has played different roles. It has been labeled the “backbone” of the learning process and exclusive medium of instruction by supporters of the Grammar Translation Method, the “intruder” to blame for the learners’ mistakes by… Read more »

ROLO: Reformulate Output Lightly but Often by Paul Emmerson Key points ROLO is diagnostic language feedback. It involves starting with what the students said in class just now (their Output), and then helping them to say the same thing either in a more accurate way, or in a way that expresses a meaning closer to… Read more »