I’ve been going over resources for teaching the World Cup in the EFL classrom. There’s a lot of great stuff up but I’ve been hunting for lessons that can reach all students, even those who aren’t interested or knowledgeable about football and, most importantly for my teaching situation, one-time lesson plans that fit into an hour or 90 minutes, because I teach a lot of groups only once a week.
So here are some worksheets and lesson plans that I really like. ESOL Courses has some nice quizzes and activities, particularly …Continue

I covered some Olympic vocabulary in a previous post and I am continuing the series now with Athletics since that’s the big event at the moment in Beijing.
Athletics or Track and Field, as it is sometimes called has a lot of equipment and therefore its own special vocabulary. Since it’s easier to show you than tell, here is a list of events with pictures that should make it pretty clear, and some key terms:

Discus

The discus is thrown and the winner is the athlete who can throw it the furthest.

Javelin

The javelin …Continue

Since the Summer Olympic Games have opened in Beijing, I wanted to share some Olympics vocab in English. It’s a fun topic and almost everyone watches or at least keeps track of what’s going on. So take a chance to practice your English with native speakers by talking about the Olympics or follow the news in English. Here are some descriptions of key terms by sport to help you out.

Archery is a sport played with a bow and arrow. The participants or archers try to hit the target by …Continue

In getting back to normal life after the aforementioned personal crises, I immediately downloaded back episodes of my favorite podcasts that I missed over the last few weeks. Wait, Wait…Don’t Tell Me is my absolute favorite radio show that here in Kazakhstan I can only get on podcast. It’s a pseudo-game show that really just makes fun of the week’s news. It’s great practice for language learners because it’s funny and entertaining so you want to try to understand.
One of the recent episodes mentioned some quotes from members of …Continue