When talking about things that happened in the past, it's a good idea to have a cheat sheet ready for students to refer to.

What do you say when someone tells you how you can easily cure or treat your chronic illness? I've always struggled with this, more so now it's not in my native language.

How many different words can you discover that rhyme with 'ale'?

There are so many different aspects that can be covered in new technology courses, that they have benefits for everyone. Especially in the age of agents and AI, learning how to evaluate and use technology appropriately is important in school, work and all aspects of life.

Podcasts are an excellent and enjoyable way to increase your listening fluency and pick up new words, in a context you are actually interested in.

A multi-lesson group conversation activity that is based on the real world. It engages students' creativity, critical thinking and planning skills, and gets them using language naturally, as a by-product of doing the activity - best for putting skills into practice.

A number of my classes are deep in the jobs and professions topic area. So, to give them some vocabulary homework that they don't mind doing, I made another puzzle.

For normal, healthy people, a virus is usually a short term illness. You feel terrible for a few days, and perhaps take a week to recover. For people with other health 'complications', viruses can stick around and make a difficult situation much harder to deal with.

We all have huge language goals and feel too time-poor to chase after them. But you can slot in language learning and make progress with some of these useful language learning hacks.

Word games, quizzes, puzzles and crosswords are a good way to work on vocabulary.