Whether you’re testing reading comprehension, helping students learn new vocabulary words, or improving listening skills, cloze activities may help. These fill-in-the-blank passages work for students at multiple levels. The reading level of the passage and the difficulty of the vocabulary words you choose help determine the difficulty of the activity.
Bring positive role-models into your teenage classroom with these inspiring lesson activity ideas from Laura Sigsworth. There’s a motivational THiNK poster and accompanying worksheet included too!
This article explores the use of idioms and fixed expressions in the Cambridge Learner Corpus. As language learners, we often feel a great sense of accomplishment on discovering a new idiom or fixed expression, and we’re keen to put it to use right away. Perhaps as a result of this enthusiasm, we are prone to errors and the expressions are often overused. In this article, find out which idioms and fixed expressions prove most popular with learners, as well as which ones are the trickiest to master.