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ACTIVITIES FOR REVIEWING AND RECYCLING THE LANGUAGE FROM NEWS QUIZ 2023 Image credits: Isaac Mayne/DCMS , Steve Swayne  ;  Les Zg , Geoffrey Chandler   Welcome back, fellow EFL/ESL ed...

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TRADITIONAL END-OF-YEAR NEWS QUIZ FOR THE FIRST LESSON OF THE NEW YEAR Image by Fulton County Sheriff's Office, State of Georgia via Wikipedia It's time for... News Quiz 2023! Following th...

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 Penny Ur shares research she finds interesting at IATEFL 2023 Penny Ur posting for photos with fans after her IATEFL talk (19.4.23) This is the second instalment of my two-part post abou...

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Insights from Penny Ur’s IATEFL 2023 talk in lieu of a proper conference report Few people in the industry can make research sound sexy the way Penny Ur and Scott Thornbury can. But it’s...

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ACTIVITIES FOR REVIEWING AND RECYCLING THE LANGUAGE FROM NEWS QUIZ 2022 Image credits: Matt Hrkac  ; Heo Manjin | Korea.net ; Number 10 ; Steve Jurvetson  I hope the latest editio...

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TRADITIONAL END-OF-YEAR NEWS QUIZ FOR THE FIRST LESSON OF THE NEW YEAR Here's the 2022 edition of the annual news quiz some of you have already been asking me about. And yes, I did it myself -...

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Some highlights from the annual IATEFL conference, which took place in Belfast on 17-20 May The first post-pandemic 'in-person' IATEFL conference saw a slight dip in attendance figures – a...

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 A LESSON BASED ON JANINE DI GIOVANNI'S TED TALK Image source: TED.com I came across this talk, which is shorter than usual TED talks, while looking for some materials on the topic of war...

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ACTIVITIES FOR REVIEWING AND RECYCLING THE LANGUAGE FROM NEWS QUIZ 2021 Image credits: NASA  ;  TapTheForwardAssist  ; Glenn Francis   I hope you enjoyed the latest edition of the News...

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Photo by Hello I'm Nik on Unsplash This blog is alive! And so is the blogger. Yes, as you can see, I've survived the apocalypse and am proud to present the 2021 edition of the traditional ...

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ACTIVITIES FOR REVIEWING AND RECYCLING THE LANGUAGE FROM NEWS QUIZ 2020 Image credits: Frankie Fouganthin  ,  TenAsia  , U.S. Secretary of Defense   - via Wikimedia Commons The tradi...

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Photo by Victor He on Unsplash Here's the delayed 2020 edition of my traditional news quiz with apologies to my friends and followers. I hope it still arrives in time for your first lesson...

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A listening activity based on a Coldplay's song, which can be optionally followed by jigsaw reading. This is a song activity based on a surprise collaboration between Coldplay and the Chainsmok...

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Photos of the Week section in The Atlantic Although the lockdown restrictions are gradually being eased in many countries, remote teaching is still in effect - and looks set to continue for...

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Photo by Caroline Feelgood on Unsplash Now that many schools around the Coronavirus-stricken globe have been closed, teachers have had to come to grips with the idea that many have heard...

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Image credits: Frankie Fouganthin ; Milliped ; SounderBruce ; under Creative Commons license Activities for reviewing lexis from News Quiz 2019 Some of my followers have already been as...

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TRADITIONAL END-OF-YEAR NEWS QUIZ FOR THE FIRST LESSON OF THE NEW YEAR Photo by Katherine Cheng via Flickr  Just as I finished working on this, a thought crossed my mind: perhaps it sh...

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I first mentioned Quizlet in a blog post in 2013 . Over the past six years it has become a staple in many EFL/ESL classrooms. These days whenever I ask participants of my workshops to indicate by...

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CUP booth at IATEFL Poland in Wroclaw (September 2018) Can you spot my book? This is just a quick update. I know it seems like I haven't been blogging much since my book came out, except fo...

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ACTIVITIES FOR REVIEWING LEXIS FROM NEWS QUIZ 2018 Image credits: John Bauld  flic.kr/p/McsiQi ; Alisdare Hickson flic.kr/p/24W89b5 ; NASA I hope you and - your students - liked ...

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Photo by KRIS AUS67 on Flickr   Although I haven't been a very active blogger this year - but check my posts on the CUP blog  -  the traditional end-of-year news quiz is here as always! ...

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'The sun rises in the east' - a commonly used example of the Present Simple Photo by @CliveSir via ELTpics  on Flickr In a recent discussion in one of the Facebook groups (this is what ...

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Photo by Hana Ticha via eltpics on Flickr A friend of mine has mastered English - which is attested by a CPE certificate - by looking up a word and carefully studying examples in a diction...

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ACTIVITIES FOR REVIEWING THE LANGUAGE FROM NEWS QUIZ 2017 Collage made with photos by www.kremlin.ru ,  Beyoncé (@beyonce ) on Instagram , Alex Fau on Flickr https://flic.kr/p/qKyo...

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Image source: Billboard Not too many celebrity deaths this year, but there is a variety of science, sport, celebrity gossip and, inevitably, some politics thrown in. I've tried to vary the...

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