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Substitution Drilling for Better Language Acquisition – Lesson Plan

As JJ Wilson and other speakers at the 4th ELT Malta Conference pointed out, drills can be extremely boring in class. In the Activity that I’d like to share with you here, substitution drills are creatively conducted to avoid the ‘head drilling’ …and still have the benefit of the practice that drilling offers Lesson information …

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Timelines and Concept Questions

Most of my students learning English seem to rate their progress in the language, by the amount of tenses they ‘know’. I’ve deliberately put ‘know’ in parenthesis, as the the word seems to have different definition to different learners.  Here are a few definitions: 1.     I ‘know’ a tense because I have been shown how it …

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