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Defining relative clauses
Robbio Dobbio:Great communicative introduction to defining relative clauses. Originally posted on A Hive of Activities: Copyright © 2014 Emma Gore-Lloyd This is a communicative, personalised activity...
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A few tweaks to the 4-3-2 technique: mining texts for lexis + mind-mapping to...
Robbio Dobbio:A great activity for developing fluency. Originally posted on ELT stories: Another one in a series of fluency-related posts – more links here: contents. One of the most widely known...
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Mind-mapping social encounters: a generic lesson plan
Robbio Dobbio:Another great mind-mapping fluency activity from Olya at ELT Stories. Originally posted on ELT stories: Just a short addition to the previous post in which I described how my B1-C1...
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Experimenting with English (Part 2) – Activities for learners to do outside...
Robbio Dobbio:A great way to push students to do more outside class. Originally posted on Reflections of an English Language Teacher: In my blog post Experimenting with English: scaffolding learner...
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2014 in review
The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2014 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: The Louvre Museum has 8.5 million visitors per year. This blog was viewed about 230,000 times in...
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Blog Award!
I got the badge for the blog award freeenglishlessonplans.com won in November last year! Also in the running for this month’s edition of the award for the CAE speaking phrases lesson. If you have time...
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30 topic cards for IELTS / CPE Speaking
Robbio Dobbio:Great resource for CPE/IELTS speaking practice. Originally posted on teflgeek: I don’t think this needs much in the way of explanation! If you click the pdf link below, I’ve put together...
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Half a Million Views!!!
Image credit: www.gainsborough.hackney.sch.uk Follow me on twitter @RobbioDobbio freeenglishlessonplans.com has just reached half a million all time views! Thanks to all my followers and everyone...
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Adapting games – Truth be told with second conditionals
Robbio Dobbio:Great idea! Originally posted on : Truth be told is a game that encourages players to be creative. It’s similar to games like Dixit, Absolute Boulderdash and Pictionarywhich create a...
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3 things teachers should know about Windows 10
Robbio Dobbio:New functions in Windows 10 and what they mean for teachers. Originally posted on tekhnologic: Windows 10 has just been released, but I haven’t seen anything written about it from a...
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Amazing Downloadable Resources from Tekhnologic
I’m currently writing a training seminar on tools for recycling vocabulary and structures. It turns out Tekhnologic have basically done all the work for me! Check out these amazing templates:...
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IELTS Writing: DOs and DON’Ts of Task 2
Great tips from Marek Kiczkowiak at http://teflreflections.wordpress.com also relevant to FCE/CAE/CPE students. Source: IELTS Writing: DOs and DON’Ts of Task 2
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Invention Presentations
Follow me on twitter @RobbioDobbio Image credit: en.wikipedia.org This is a lesson plan for pre-intermediate (A2) upwards. Students think of an invention and present it to the class. Download the...
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RIP David Bowie
Today we lost a hero. What terrible news to wake up to on any day, let alone the first day back at work after the Christmas holidays. I found out in a break between classes at 9am when I checked my...
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Bowie’s Barcelona Half-Marathon
In the past few years cancer has reared it’s ugly head on several occasions, affecting loved ones of good friends and work colleagues. Last week we lost two heroes, David Bowie and Alan Rickman, to...
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Award Nomination
Hi followers, I’ve been nominated for Teaching English British Council blog of the month award. If you think my lesson plan on peer-taught phrasal verbs should win then go the Facebook page below,...
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Amazing Resources from Cork English Teacher
I’ve reposted a few of his phrase sheets before but check out this amazing bank of fantastic resources from his Facebook page: Cork English Teacher
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1,000,000 Views!
We’ve reached one million views! Thanks to all my followers and any one of those 1 million clickers!
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Game: Alphabet Quiz CPE Idioms Version
Image credit: www.20minutos.es Follow me on twitter @RobbioDobbio This is a new version of my Alphabet Quiz game designed for very high levels (high C1) in which students have to guess different...
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