2023-12-08 05:39
This is a video-based lesson for B1 and B2 students, suitable for both teens and adults. It focuses on skill development and introduces / reviews quite a lot of functional language students… Read More
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Thinking Beyond the Doing
2023-12-07 21:00
I didn’t choose English so much as it chose me. Somehow it crept its way into my life and ended up shaping my education, my interests, and my career. Today I make a living out of tea… Read More
2023-12-06 23:32
Of all the ELT buzzwords I’ve heard, thought about and used over the past decade, noticing is by far the most frequent. Fortunately, noticing is nowhere near as broad and ambivalent a… Read More
2023-12-06 21:30
Does teacher talking time matter?
If you’ve been in the profession long enough, chances are that you’ve either been told that your teacher talking time (TTT) was way too high or… Read More
2023-12-06 05:04
This post contains a very short excerpt from Big Bang Theory with a classic “second conditional” example and on-screen activities.
Last week I saw what was possibly the funnies… Read More
2023-12-05 20:50
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The post How do you pronounce the word ‘effects,’ in the plural? appeared first o… Read More
2023-12-05 20:29
Video is so ubiquitous in modern life that we sometimes take students’ comprehension for granted and fail to explore it to the fullest in class. This might happen because we’re… Read More
2023-12-04 23:13
A lot of what we do in class tends to be related to grammar in one way or another. This post, which won the British Council Blog of the Month Award in Feb 2013, examines some of the questio… Read More
2023-12-02 06:13
Official definition of fossilization:
Fossilization may be defined as “The point at which no further learning appears possible, with the student’s performance apparently impervi… Read More
2023-12-02 06:00
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 tsuna… Read More
2023-11-23 17:00
Back in the late 1990s, in the process of reading for my MA dissertation, I put together a collection of hundreds of “sentence frames” that I felt could help me with my academic… Read More
2023-11-23 14:45
Academic language, especially academic writing, poses a lot of challenges for both native and non-native speakers. Trust me, I’ve been there!
If you’re struggling to write your… Read More
2022-01-04 01:38
If you look up the word majority in a good English-English dictionary, you’ll find lots of different adjective + noun collocations. But, according to corpus data, which adjectives doe… Read More
2022-01-04 01:28
Textbooks sometimes overlook common language patterns that every advanced student should know. Case in point: be + not without + noun. Watch the video and pay attention to the corpus data a… Read More
2022-01-04 01:14
Some dictionaries suggest congratulate on only, while others include examples with both congratulate on and congratulate for. What does corpus data suggest? Watch the video and find out… Read More
2021-11-01 16:50
This post is a summary of some of the dilemmas I have faced in my lesson observations since 1994, when I sat in on another teacher’s lesson for the first time. My intention is to rais… Read More
2021-05-19 04:10
This lesson is based on my most popular Instagram post to date, and you can use it with B2+ students and higher. Use it/Adapt it to your heart’s content. I’ve tried to provide a… Read More
2021-03-30 20:57
Access é uma obra em 3 volumes desenvolvida para alunos do Ensino Médio que se preparam para ingressar em uma universidade. Access trabalha com foco no desenvolvimento da habi… Read More
2021-03-22 02:59
A Complete the sentences, taken from authentic videos, with the verbs below in the correct form. Some will be negative. Write the answers in your notebook.
1. Someone admitting they… Read More
2021-02-15 22:33
100 Phrasal Verbs to Learn for Life offers a fresh approach to helping B2 (high-intermediate) to C1 (advanced) students learn phrasal verbs more effectively. Here’s what makes the bo… Read More
2020-11-06 22:47
Subject/Verb agreement can be tricky for students of all levels and age groups. Here are two videos to help you review the most important rules. Play video 1 first.
If the video is out of… Read More
2020-04-07 14:41
This lesson focuses on the kind of formulaic language your students might need when they interact online. It seems ideal for pre-intermediate and intermediate students, but you might want t… Read More
2020-04-03 05:33
This is a video-based grammar lesson for intermediate students. Use it to your heart’s content.Stay strong!
– – – – – – – – – &nda&hell…Read More
2019-06-17 18:12
It seems like I just can’t get away from the same kinds of PPP vs. TBL discussions I used to have in the 1990s, no matter how hard I try.
This morning, for example, I woke up to a bit… Read More
2019-05-16 18:53
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.
PART ONE &nb&hell…Read More
2019-03-12 12:30
These are some of the interviews I’ve given over the last few years:
2019, New Routes Magazine
2018, IATEFL
2018, Talking EFL
2016, TESOL
2013, Kaplan International
The post My intervi… Read More
2019-03-12 11:41
Personal Best Upper Intermediate
Author: Luiz Otávio Barros
Series Editor: Jim Scrivener
Available now
C1 available mid 2019
Published by Richmond
The post Personal Best: Brand new se… Read More
2019-01-18 01:34
But I’ve never heard anything like that!Do people actually use it?
This is what my B2+ / C1 / C2 students often tell me whenever I try to teach them how to add emphasis using negati… Read More
2019-01-12 02:00
Look at the sentences below:
“This is the criteria I was talking about.”
“The police is coming! Don’t worry.”
Which one is right?
Take this five-minute test. So… Read More
2018-06-26 04:10
This is an eight-minute video containing thirteen words that students of all levels and nationalities tend to mispronounce. You can use it in class with your late A2, B1 or B2 students… Read More
2018-06-19 03:49
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 +… Read More
2017-11-17 15:27
Before you scroll down for the two videos, here’s some food for thought.
Students of all ages and levels often get the third person S wrong, and it seems important to understand why th… Read More
2017-03-15 04:27
This is a video-based lesson for intermediate and upper-intermediate students, suitable for both teens and adults. It focuses on listening for gist / detail and provides opportunities f… Read More
2016-10-06 13:20
The Only Academic Book You’ll Ever Need: 600 sentence templates + 80 grammar and vocabulary tips, for both native and non-native speakers. Available on Amazon and Smashwords. Readable… Read More
2016-10-06 13:20
The Only Academic Book You’ll Ever Need: 600 “sentence frames” + 80 grammar and vocabulary tips, for both native and non-native speakers. Available on Amazon (e-book a… Read More
2016-10-06 07:07
As you know, the “-ed” endings of regular past tense verbs can be pronounced in three different ways: /t/, /d/ and /ɪd/, which is the one most students tend to overuse… Read More
2016-09-13 13:44
Academic language poses a lot of challenges for both native and non-native speakers. Trust me, I’ve been there!
If you’re struggling to write your term papers, reports or dissert… Read More
2016-07-30 06:11
Here’s the link to the interview in which I talk about my experience breaking into the ELT publishing world:https://nnestofthemonth.wordpress.com/2016/02/01/luiz-otavio-barros/ Read More
2016-07-29 22:14
Identities by Paul Seligson and Luiz Otávio Barros
Published by Richmond
B2 available now
C1 available late 2016 Read More
2015-11-08 04:39
This is a video-based lesson for intermediate students, suitable for both teens and adults. It focuses on skill development and introduces / reviews quite a lot of functional language studen… Read More
2015-09-03 19:58
This is a ready-made, video-based lesson you can use with your upper-intermediate / advanced adult students. Copy and paste whatever you want and use it to your heart’s conte… Read More
2015-09-03 19:58
This is a ready-made, video-based lesson you can use with your upper-intermediate / advanced adult students. Copy and paste whatever you want and use it to your heart’s cont… Read More
2015-04-28 00:13
This is a ready-made, video-based lesson you can use with your intermediate / upper-intermediate students. It’s suitable for both teens and adults. Copy and paste whatever you want and… Read More
2015-02-25 00:04
This is a ready-made, video-based lesson you can use with your upper-intermediate / advanced students. Copy and paste whatever you want, to your heart’s content! It’s yours to us… Read More
2015-02-20 06:08
This is a ready-made lesson you can use with your intermediate / upper-intermediate students. Copy and paste whatever you want to your heart’s content! You can use it to introduce / su… Read More
2015-02-11 02:27
This lesson is based on a recent post in which I discussed seven ways to get maximum mileage out of video-based listening activities. Before you go any further, please take five minutes to r… Read More
2015-02-05 15:37
What is Demand High Teaching?
I first heard of Demand High Teaching in March 2012, when Jim Scrivener and Adrian Underhill launched a low-key, no-frills blog containing a brief introduction… Read More
2014-03-10 18:46
I don’t think I have ever taught or observed an advanced lesson that went seriously wrong. I mean cringe-worthy wrong. Which is hardly surprising.
After all, advanced students have be… Read More
2013-12-11 15:47
No.
Can I learn English in 24 months?
No.
32?
Stop asking. This is the wrong question.
And it’s wrong on so many levels:
1. First, what do you mean by “Learn English?” (a)… Read More
2013-12-04 03:19
Internet memes are all around us these days. Whether you like them or not, you are bombarded with them 24/7 through social media. And so are your learners – kids, teens and adults who… Read More
2013-12-04 03:19
Internet memes are all around us these days. Whether you like them or not, you are bombarded with them 24/7 through social media. And so are your learners – kids, teens and adults who… Read More
2013-04-25 05:25
You will probably find this post useful if:
1. You’re a teacher of English.
2. English is not your native language.
3. You have recently made the transition from advanced student to t… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
If you’re a non-native speaker of English and you’ve recently embarked on a teaching career, chances are that you might be making one or two classroom language mistakes you&rsquo&hell…Read More
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