Nik's QuickShout

For tech-savvy students there are many ways to get their grammar checked, from online grammar checkers to the inbuilt grammar checks that t...

I was recently looking through my Tools for Teacher & Learners site and searching through the accumulated resources there - More than ...

One of the most time consuming and at times depressing tasks any teacher has to do must surely be marking large piles of student homework. ...

Practical English Usage by Michael Swan was one of the first books I ever bought when I started learning to teach. It's one of the few...

Even the most confident of native speakers can sometimes have doubts about their spelling and grammar. As for learners of English, getting...

One of my favourite ways of helping students with the difference in use between 'present perfect' and 'past simple'  forms ...

I spotted this interesting tool this morning. Take Me Back To is a search engine which can locate information from a particular day in his...

Over the last few years, I have often heard teachers commenting that they would like to use more technology with their students, but they ha...

Last week I saw IfItWereMyHome and instantly thought that it would be a useful resource to get students making meaningful 2nd Conditional s...

Back in December 2010 I wrote an article about how you could use Batlyrics , a site which combined Song videos and lyrics, as a corpus to fi...