Where I teach, in a small town in inland Sicily, many young people leave to study or work elsewhere, and English often decides how many doors are open...

@fabio-giobbe The mandatory role switch is the part I’d borrow. It forces students to listen to the other team, because the arguments they’ve just he...

My most reliable speaking task is not a particular game: it’s doing the same task twice. Students get a short task with a clear outcome, such as agr...

For me, the balance of skills is not decided in advance: the learner and the goal decide it, and I plan around that. Most of my lessons have one mai...

Title: Is the Room Still Available?Hi everyone,A role play only works when each student needs something the other one has, so I built this one around ...

@fabio-giobbe Hi Fabio, I like your idea of tasks with a focus on form before or after, and I'd add one thing from my own experience. You say that pu...

I can't say I learned English through a method. I learned it at university, while attending Berklee College of Music in Boston, where English was simp...

@antonella-boccia Hi Antonella, the part of your post that stayed with me is letting students draft their ideas in their own language before moving to...

Link: Title: Own-language use in ELT: exploring global practices and attitudes, by Graham Hall and Guy Cook (British Council, 2013) I chose a res...

LINK: “Monitoring” by Steve Darn, British Council TeachingEnglish.teachingenglish I chose monitoring because keeping learners engaged during pair an...

The EFL context resonates most with me because I teach English in Italy, where many learners have limited opportunities to use it in everyday life. Te...

I find listening more challenging to develop than reading because learners have less control over the pace. With a text, they can reread a sentence; i...

For me, language awareness means noticing not only whether a sentence is grammatically correct, but also what it means, how it sounds and whether it s...

My experience as a language learner has shown me that motivation makes a difference to how consistently I practise. I am more willing to work through ...

My first language was Italian. I acquired it like everybody else, through everyday life: listening to my family, going to school, joining conversation...