This is the first in a two part series. Here you have a few ideas on how to review days of the week, months of the year and dates while allowing children to personalise the lesson and allowing you to give them some invaluable cultural input. The second will focus on special days and birthdays in particular.

‘Realia’ in EFL terms refers to any real objects we use in the classroom to bring the class to life. In this tip I’d like to offer a few suggestions for activities using realia and to consider why we may want to bring things into the class.

This lesson is based around the Olympics games and gives students the opportunity to broaden their sports vocabulary.

This tip is in response to postings this year and in previous years: Christmas and how to integrate it into your lessons. I have decided to write

This is an activity in which students try to predict the order of words in a jumbled sentence before listening for the answer. It is enjoyable because students are asked to predict the first word, in the same way people try to

The reasons for using poetry are similar to those for using songs and many activities that you do with songs can be adapted to poetry. Any authentic material exposes students to some ‘real English’ and can be

The overall teaching aim of this lesson is to give students some idea of how important museums are in the UK as their economic impact on tourism is somewhere near two billion pounds a year.