EFL Vocabulary Games In the Trinity exams, it’s important that students have a wide range of vocabulary about each of the subject areas. But learning vocabulary can be a chore – students need to meet and use the language on […]
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Thoughts, ideas and helpful hints about preparing students for the Trinity College London GESE and ISE exams.
EFL Writing Connectors for ISE Students: Free download
EFL Writing Connectors: FREE DOWNLOAD It’s very important that students use link words and connectors in their writing in the ISE exam. They help students to produce more complex sentences, link their ideas and show the relationship between them. In […]
Official Trinity Resources – ISE I (B1) Reading and Writing Module Videos
ISE I Reading and Writing Module Videos There are now a number of videos on Trinity College London’s official YouTube channel which explain the ISE I Reading and Writing module and provide hints and tips for how students can do […]
Official Trinity Resources – Worksheets from the Spoken Learner Corpus
Spoken Learner Corpus In recent years, Trinity College London has been working in collaboration with the Centre for Corpus Approaches to Social Science at Lancaster University to build up a corpus of spoken language used in GESE exams at B1-C2 […]
Using Emoji in the Classroom – a back-to-school activity
The first class back to school after the holidays can sometimes be a drag – students are often tired and not particularly motivated to jump straight back into the curriculum. So here is a fun activity you can use to […]
EFL Activities for Practising Question Formation
Question formation is notoriously difficult for EFL learners – problems include difficulties with word order, using the wrong question word and troubles with auxiliaries. And as we all know, asking questions is a big part of the Trinity exams – it’s […]
Christmas Conversation Questions
FREE DOWNLOAD Christmas time is coming up and we’re all looking for new activities for our students to do. But you don’t necessarily want to waste a lesson on Christmas colouring / crafts / games. So here are some Christmas […]
Letter to Father Christmas Template
FREE DOWNLOAD – A1 and A2 levels Ho Ho Ho… It’s that time of year of again…Christmas is a-coming and it’s time to think about activities to do in the class. One of our favourites for younger learners is to […]
Dictation in the EFL Classroom
The other day, I mentioned in passing to a group of teachers that I had done a dictation in the classroom. This produced cries of horror – “I can’t believe you did a dictation; that’s so 1950s!”, “Don’t you get […]
Ten Ways to use Flashcards
Flashcards are a wonderful resource – they really help students to associate names with pictures and remember vocabulary. And, you can use them in so many different ways to teach and revise vocabulary. Kids (and adults!) love playing games with […]