Do you teach irregular verbs in the old traditional alphabetical order? Would you like to provide your students with a more logical classification which they’ll remember with ease? Don’t you have such a list? No need to worry Here I am providing you with what I consider a very logical classification of English irregular verbs. […]
13 Questions out of 30 on the English lexicon and half an answer
Below are 13 out of the 30 questions or considerations which are part of the Foundation Course workbook for topic 10/1993 to help you prepare well and write a good essay on The English Lexicon and its word-formation processes. 13 Questions on the English Lexicon Lexical Competence and Lexis How would you define lexical competence? […]
Three effective ways to teach grammar, lexis and functions
Do you find that the way you teach grammar and lexis is not effective? … …that it doesn’t help your students to communicate in English? …or is it that you find it difficult to connect grammar, lexis and functions? Poppies, as the collaborative project it aims to be, has asked Ángela Ruiz & Bego Pérez to […]
El papel de la gramática en la programación y el aula
El papel de la gramática es clave pero no debería ser elemento central en el aula. One of the Parts which used to make up the POPPIES Foundation Course dealt with sentence structure (i.e. grammar), functions and lexis. In the current version of Poppies Foundation + Course, we have included phonetic competence too. To do so we […]