I've been teaching since 2006 and a while ago I created a community (erika-esl-files) to put together the resources I've created over the years but I ended up neglecting it. I'm back to it now and posting a series entitled English Course for Absolute Beginners. I welcome all to participate on the discussions.

Hello everyone!
I'm teaching English in one of the Japanese universities.
Couple of weeks ago I saw this essay that impressed me. Let me just share it with you.

Student: a Japanese girl, 19-20 years old, a very positive and funny character.
Writing project: write for 10 minutes about the person that you respect.
Student's level: elementary ( Read more... )

I usually teach university students. For the next 5 weeks my university is running an English program for students who are between 13 and 16 years old. I am totally petrified. I will be teaching the lowest level students ( Read more... )

For each level of the CEFR, what aspects of grammar/vocabulary words/etc are EFL speakers expected to know? I am failing at finding this online, I'm really just looking for a list that I can use as a reference.

Also, does anyone know if there's an electronic version of the Focus on Grammar (Third Edition) books (specifically books 2 and 4)? If I ( Read more... )

Hi! I wonder if someone can tell me the principles of the writing for Task 2 IELTS if it asks test takers the following:

To what extent do you agree or disagree?

Should the answer includes both sides, or just states if they agree/disagree and give their reasons/support their argument?

Thank you so much!

I've been given a new adult class which starts tomorrow evening. There will be three students. They want ( Read more... )

All are invited to take my poll on stupid writing rules at EAPlog and to add others of their own. Disclaimer: this is just for fun/propaganda purposes, and has no scientific validity ;-)

Our University has an exchange program with a  University in Scotland. We have a visiting professor here at the moment and he confirmed what I feared, the uni is an accent heavy region ( Read more... )

An adult pupil of mine wants to go study in Brighton, Eastbourne or Bournemouth for a couple of weeks or a month or so. Can anyone recommend some schools? Thanks in advance!

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I am teaching a demo and I have been asked to teach the differences between if clauses ( 2nd and 3rd conditionals) based on a communicative approach for an intermediate adult class ( Read more... )