Johanna Stirling's English Language Garden for teachers and learners of English as a foreign language

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Home page A good place to start! What's New? Interactive map.
News Where we can meet face-to-face.
For Teachers
My Articles Articles and reports I've written - lots of practical ideas
- The Portable Electronic Dictionary: Faithful friend or faceless foe? Love them or hate them, they are here to stay so let's look at how to work with them.
- Remedial Spelling in EFL Poor spelling doesn't just go away - how we can help our students improve this necessary skill.
- Helping Students to Learn the Vocabulary We Teach Them We teach new words and phrases, students learn them. But do they? Some ways to help.
- The Vocabox: Activities for Developing and Activating Vocabulary in the English Classroom Lots of vocabulary recycling activities from a very low-tech peice of equipment.
- How Can we Make Homework an Effective Tool for Language Learning? Do all your students do all their homework? No, mine neither, but here are some ideas to make it more effective and more ... done.
Links An annotated, selective list for teachers.
Activities for teachers Classroom language and classroom equipment
For Learners
- Exercises

Spelling Activities If you have problems with spelling try these activities

Silent Letters Look at some words with silent letters and learn to spell them.

Word in a Word 1 Find a short word inside a long word (it helps you to spell the long word!)

Word in a Word 2 Now see if you can spell the long words

Months Learn to spell the months of the year.

'ly' adverbs We often add 'ly' to make an adverb, but what other cjhanges do you need to make to the spelling of the adjective?
Parts of Speech Check that you know what nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs and prepositions are.

English Jokes. Learn to understand, and maybe even tell, English jokes. Click on Havin' A Laugh 2.

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