EFL teaching & learning

LOTS & HOTS will lead us -and hence our students- to Mastery. This post was first published on 14th September 2015. The links were then updated in November 2020 and again, in October 2025, to ensure that everything is working and update whatever may be needed.  Poppies Foundation 123-III-Teaching-Principles-Approaches deals with Methodology, teaching principles based [...]

 So…how can we make it nice and simple for our students?  Make it visually attractive: Charts, tables & Colours HELP- AND ALWAYS connect them to the other parts of the sentence! For instance, for the lower levels:   STRUCTURES FOR YEAR 1 CSE: Question Word(s) Auxiliary 1 Subject: Who/What Lexical  (V- V-ing V-ed/en/) Rest:                   What [...]

In the previous post THE FIRST PART OF A SET OF THREE, we showed why English Auxiliaries are ESSENTIAL in ways that Spanish Auxiliaries are not. Now we are going to: Showed why there is no future tense in English. FINALLY, in the third part: : We’ll hint at possible ways of helping our students [...]

In the previous post we: Showed why there is no future tense in English. Indicated thatthe English verb phrase cannot be understood properly, nor will we be able to interact with others in English, if we do not have it clear in our minds that there are two main groups of verbs: Lexical Auxiliary To [...]