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:o bloody hell, that sounds like a challenge. Do you have an hour before class to do the photocopying??? As a starting point I would recommend McCallums 101 Word Games Oxford University Press, as it has a number of word game activities aimed at larger class sizes, and plenty of others that can be ad...

Hi Everyone Some good points being made on this thread. I think pronunciation is very important...not that I spend 20 minutes of every session on it though. I know some Finns (one actually :D ) who speaks english with a lovely RP accent. Her voice is delicious and she's a very interesting person to ...

Gosh, this is an old post...but I'm on a roll tonight, so here's my two pennies worth (you can tell I'm English (actually Welsh) can't you?) I think accent and pronunciation for foreign speakers is not that important when it comes to native class stereotypes, but naturally, there are the foreigner p...

I've had this problem too....one student works in finance, another in customer services, another in sales. They find each others specific vocabularies dull...they each want to focus on their own area naturally. It's often a useful question to ask to the students what they have in common. In my class...

I know you've given the class up, but for future reference, I'd like to add me two pennies worth... I've had a class similar to your own, pre-intermediate as well. I had two students who were difficult, one because she had absolutely no confidence speaking in the target language, and the other who l...

:) Whenever you hear of people saying what is 'grammatical' and 'ungrammatical', us linguistics think we've found a prescriptivist in the house and start rounding up a lynch mob forewith... What I find interesting about this talk of countable and uncountable nouns is that in amongst the 'rules' or h...