This is a video-based grammar lesson intended for A2/B1 students. Its aim is to review/introduce the use of gerunds after prepositions. The grammar expansion section, which focuses on verb + preposition collocations, is probably better suited to B1/B1+. Use it to your heart’s content. Any feedback will be much appreciated.
This is a video-based lesson for intermediate and upper-intermediate students, focusing on listening, speaking and vocabulary. Use it to your heart’s content.
Looking for a song to teach must have? The Day Before You Came, by Abba, contains as many as 15 examples. This is input flooding taken to a whole new level. It’s more like input tsunami, really. The bad news is that The Day Before You Came never really made it to the top of …
It is relatively easy to create good, purposeful controlled activities to practice a given structure or lexical area (check out this book if you have the time), but it is very hard to devise communicative tasks that naturally “trap” the language you want to focus on. So what’s plan B?
