Tag Archives: Learning English

The Treasure Hunt – Edgar Wallace

Edgar Wallace was a great and popular author of detective stories and thrillers. However, he will probably forever be best remembered as the co-author of King-Kong. In the story The Treasure Hunt you can meet Mr.Reeder again and admire his brilliant criminal mind. The story has been shortened and simplified for intermediate and upper-intermediate learners […]

Free graded readers

Recently I have spent quite a lot of time simplifying books and creating graded readers. I have managed to rewrite 5 stories into simple English and you can read the graded readers here: Free graded reader – Sherlock Holmes stories Sherlock Holmes story – Silver Blaze – Pre-intermediate graded reader (4,000 words). Sherlock Holmes – Identity […]

Sherlock Holmes – The Last Curtain – IWB Classroom reading

No one can deny that students should read a lot to learn English. However, they do not want to and any longer reading is demanding on photocopying. In fact, I do not know a school where they’d be willing to copy a book for every student. That was why I searched for a way to […]

Present perfect tense

Students often complain that Present perfect  is the most difficult tense. Yes, they are right. But still they can learn a lot about it. Here is the way I teach it. Teaching present perfect tense – procedure I always start with a song. There are three good songs to introduce present perfect tense. I use […]

Mixed conditionals

Recently a colleague of mine asked me whether I have anything on unreal conditionals. I told her that did but I couldn’t give her anything and the moment as all my worksheets were at home. And at that moment I felt really sorry that I didn’t take the time to edit and post the worksheets […]

Irregular verbs game

Having an IWB in your classroom is a nice thing. It cost a lot of money and the headmaster thinks that they couldn´t do anything better either for you or for the children. However, the people responsible for buying the hardware more often than not fail to provide any software for it and they get […]