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Alibi is a fun game played as role play to practice the simple past tense and the past continuous tense. You will need: two Suspect role cards and two Police officer role cards per four students • Tell students there was a robbery at the school between 7.00 p.m. and midnight yesterday, and that all the money was stolen from the school safe. The police suspect the students from your class were responsible!

In your master's degree or doctorate, you will be required to use outside sources in research projects and assignments. In such situations, you would include the words or ideas of other people into your own work. When you do so, you must give credit for the original source of information or the idea. In other words, you must "cite" the source. When you do not properly cite or credit the original source in your work, it comes across as cheating or as plagiarized work. This citation guide will explain everything you need to know to safely and correctly cite your sources.

There are eight parts of speech in English language. They help you to understand and create good sentences.

Most English nouns have a different ending for ‘one’ of something (called the singular form) than they do for ‘more than one’ (called the plural form). In the case of the majority of nouns the plural is formed regularly simply by adding s or es to the singular, as in bat/bats, monkey/monkeys and so forth.

Questions are sentences that seek information of some kind. They are followed by a question mark (?) and they often involve the inversion of the subject and an auxiliary or modal verb, as in: Do you play the piano? Did you pass the exam?

Professional development is all about change in learning. Language teaching of course provides a career for hundreds of thousands of teachers worldwide some may have just entered the language teaching profession while others may have careers that span years or more. The field of language teaching itself is also subject to constant change both as the profession responds to new movements and trends in language teaching and as the demand for quality language programs and quality language teachers expands. As a result teachers need regular opportunities to update their professional knowledge and skills and that means opportunities to participate in professional development.

How does comprehension work? It's a very complex process but researchers have identified two different strands you might say of listening that are important think about one is called bottom-up processing and the other is called top-down processing. Let's touch on both in this post.

Phrasal verbs are compound verbs consisting of a verb, like come or take, and a particle (i.e. an adverb or a preposition), like off or up. They are a common and important part of English, especially in speaking and in informal writing. Often they have an equivalent formal word, for example, make up (informal phrasal verb), and invent (formal equivalent). New phrasal verbs are being created all the time, particularly by young people.

According to Felder and Brent ( 1996 , p. 43) defined SCL as “a broad teaching approach that includes substituting active learning for lectures, holding students responsible for their learning, and using self paced and/or cooperative (team-based) learning.” SCL shifts the focus of instruction from teachers to students and prepares students to be lifelong learners, i.e., people with the ability and desire to continue learning inside and outside of formal education.

In this post, I’ll share with you an example on how to apply Gagne’s nine events of instruction using an example of writing skills. You can use Gagne’s nine events of instruction to design your lessons. A Little History About These Nine Events 55 years ago, Robert Gagné published the first edition of his book The Conditions of Learning (1965) in which he proposed nine events of instruction that provide a sequence for organizing a lesson. These events remain the foundation of current instructional design practice, represent desirable conditions in an instructional program, and increase the probability of successful learner achievement in the program.

There are a lot of ways to use this method and my way is definitely not the only way. My goal in writing this post was to share a method that's worked really well for me and I hope that parts of it might be useful to you as well. Second, if you like and use a different version of this method, I hope you'll let us know in the comments section below. Here are the questions that we're going to address. What is the flipped classroom method? How can it be useful?

Warm ups are a great way of bridging the gap into rehearsals or into a drama session, encouraging participants to “let their hair down” a bit, to move their bodies and use their voices, to work with a partner or as a member of a group.