Damien Herlihy

Games are a great way to engage teenage language students, and offer a whole host of different benefits. Here, Damien Herlihy dives into ETpedia Teenagers to explore 10 games your teenage students will enjoy.

Gerhard Erasmus

Gerhard Erasmus was a decade into his teaching career before he heard the word morphosyntax. Here, he explains why thinking about grammar as morphology and syntax opened up a whole new teaching world to him, as he explores what this means in practice.

Nowadays many teachers heavily rely on using real-world videos – such as new reports, trailers, clips from TV programmes, etc – as a language teaching resource. Using these types of videos can lead to student growth and progress, and greater confidence in using their language skills in real life. Read on to discover some advantages of using real-world videos as a tool for teaching a language.

Imagine introducing a language point in class, or getting learners to read a dialogue in pairs or even a part of a lesson where you are working on word stress with your class… these are all familiar scenarios that can happen face to face or live online. And, in each one, you and/or learners are, in a sense, performers, using storytelling, role-play and voice exercises, with the classroom acting as your rehearsal space.