Oh, please! What a cliche! Yes, you're right about that, although I still think learning English is a good idea... What are cliches? Glad you asked! Here is a guide to cliches for English learners. The guide also points out the difference between cliches and idioms, as well as providing a number of popular cliches with definitions and examples.

Teaching absolute beginners requires the teacher to pay special attention to the order in which new language is introduced. This 20 point program provides a syllabus to take students from speaking no English at all to being able to fulfill basic communication needs including; giving person information describing their daily routines and the world around them.

This lesson plan builds on the Zodiac sign resource at the site. Whether students believe in the Zodiac or not, working with Zodiac sign descriptions provides a great opportunity to widen their vocabulary knowledge about personality and characteristic adjectives. Use this Zodiac signs lesson plan to get students talking about themselves and their friends. You'll all have a good laugh, and students will improve their active vocabulary beyond the standard happy, funny, sad, and lucky

If you'd like to study on your own, here is the Zodiac Personality Gallery.

What's Twitter you ask? Twitter is a tool that you can use to send messages of up to 140 characters to a group of followers while you also follow others. It's a great tool that works with any device that you use to connect to the Internet. The messages are short, and easy to read. It's the perfect platform to practice English structure, idioms and phrases!

I've started a new Twitter page and I'll be helping students practice their writing skills on a daily basis - except weekends of course! The time needed is short - a few minutes a day. Here's an introduction to the project.