Teaching Matters

The time has come to say goodbye. After nine years of curating teaching materials and almost as many of writing weekly newsletters, I have decided to retire from WebEnglish. Thank you for all the nice comments and cups of tea I have received so far. Keep up the good work ...

Since retiring from teaching, I have gradually felt increasingly reluctant to continue producing WebEnglish. I will continue with the weekly Newsletters until the end of May, but I plan to cut down and only produce the Monthly Newsletters starting from August 2023 onwards. Time will tell when I will close ...

Every year, WebEnglish suggests Chinese New Year be mentioned in English classes. Does this seem odd?  Let me explain. A big part of English studies is to present cultural phenomena in English-speaking countries. In all major cities in Britain, the USA, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand there is a large ...

This article was first posted on 31 Dec 2021. I love Calendars! At the beginning of every term, I used to love filling in the new calendar. It felt like Christmas to see all those days line up like presents in front of me. Somehow, they predicted my imminent future ...

If you are still on holiday, disregard this post and look it up a day or two before your first class. A typical way to start a new term after a holiday is to ask the students what they did during the holidays. Some students dread these questions, as they ...

WebEnglish wishes you a happy New Year! Keep enjoying your holiday, knowing that WebEnglish will publish all updated term planning pages on Sunday, Jan 4th. Do not open them until a day or two before your first class ...

This is an updated version of an earlier post with the same name. If you don't use WebEnglish Themes, where there are Warm-Up activities, you might wish to create structure in the lessons and make the students feel secure in a routine by starting all lessons with similar Start-Up activities ...

Note! If you wish to open the same calendar twice on the same day, open it up again from this page by clicking on the topic line. and you get the default page to find the number on.  Advent Time is Here! WebEnglish presents FIVE Advent Calendars again this year ...

At WebEnglish we don't want to diminish the story of Thanksgiving by starting with Christmas before the 1st Sunday of Advent. Five WebEnglish Advent Calendars will be released on Thanksgiving Day, Nov. 24th  Note: The first window will not open before Thu Dec. 1st. All Christmas pages have been updated ...

If you ask any American, which is the greatest tradition and/or celebration of the year, they'll all say the same: Thanksgiving. Yet, it seems to be forgotten in most English language classes in cultures that do not celebrate Thanksgiving themselves. This year, WebEnglish urges all teachers to fill the gap ...

On Oct 10th, World Mental Health Day, I attended a seminar on What Teens Need. The main point that I learned was that the number of teenage and young adult suicides is rapidly increasing. Hope lies in learning and talking. Research says that when young children and teenagers learn 1) ...