Thursday, June 5, 2025

Reviews & Resources

Overt Teaching: What is it & how can it help your students?

What would you say your approach to teaching is? Do you believe in pre-teaching language at the beginning of a lesson? Do you prefer...

Get out of here

Take your students on a mission to learn with this innovative book, says Wayne Trotman ESCAPE THE CLASSROOM Fiona Wall Minami Perceptia Press, 2020 ISBN: 978-4-939130-29-8 The author...

Making it fun

There are plenty of ways to keep interest from flagging in the classroom, as Wayne Trotman discovers 101 EFL ACTIVITIES FOR TEACHING UNIVERSITY STUDENTS Hall...

Learning through the unknown

From a pair of trainers to the Loch Ness monster, Wayne Trotman looks at unusual teaching tactics HISTORY’S MYSTERIES Created by Taylor Sap with Catherine...

The answer book

Where to go when you just don’t know 50 QUESTIONS ABOUT ENGLISH USAGE David Crystal Cambridge Handbooks for Language Teachers: Pocket Editions Cambridge University Press, 2021...

Where the world meets

ICEF Berlin makes an ideal launch pad to get back in the swing It’s been a long time coming, but at last we’re able to...

Successful learning

Strategies and insights prove useful in acquiring a new language, finds Wayne Trotman 100+ Tips and Tricks for Success in Language Learning Felicity O’Dell and Patricia...

Motivating students with clear goals

Anastasia Antonova gives teachers practical guidance on using can-do statements One of the biggest challenges that teachers face is helping students maintain motivation to continue...

No need to feel like a dinosaur

Wayne Trotman reviews a new volume explaining what 21st-century skills is all about 21st Century Skills in the ELT Classroom – A Guide for Teachers Author/editor:...

Digital review: READY TO RUN

readytorun.digitallearningassociates.com Pete Sharma delves into the rich library of video content from Digital Learning Associates Ready to Run is an online library of short videos for...