Teaching Matters

When I went to school I loved reading books, but I hated answering content questions for class. I always felt stupid answering questions that everybody in the classroom knew the answer to. When I studied at the university, I was finally allowed to write what I thought about what I ...

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 like presents lining up in front of me. Somehow they predicted my imminent future with secret promises for every day. Ever so often ...

This year, WebEnglish.se has changed Calendar style, so every level gets their own page.

When you open the page, there is first the featured image, and below that the actual calendar. There will be the same theme on each day, so you may look around, and decide which one you ...

*Advent: "The coming or arrival of something or someone that is important or worthy of note" At WebEnglish.se we don't want to shade the story of Thanksgiving by starting with Christmas before the 1st Sunday of Advent. We will be updating all Christmas pages during the last week of November ...

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.se urges all teachers to remedy the gap ...

24 October has been celebrated as United Nations Day since 1948. In 1971, the United Nations General Assembly recommended that the day be observed by the Member States as a public holiday. Related Topics: Human Rights, Malala Yousafzai, The Child's Rights

Lesson Plans

Columbus Day has traditionally been celebrated in the US on the second Monday in October commemorating the day when Christopher Columbus landed on the island of San Salvador in today’s Bahamas on October 12th in 1492. In recent years, however, as awareness over the disrespect and cruelty acted upon the ...

For this Halloween season, WebEnglish.se is loaded with materials. All related Theme Pages have been updated for teachers to make the English classes spooky with witches, monsters, murders, mysteries, and ghosts. There's enough for any level for the whole month of October. Choose here where to start:

Halloween 1-3

Monsters, ...

On this USA Constitution Day, I have been adding several new links to the theme pages where you can learn about the USA Presidential Election and about Democracy as a whole. All the new links are suitable for younger learners on early A2-level, year 6-7 in Sweden.  Have fun! ...

I saw a post from a WebEnglish.se user in another Facebook feed asking whether WebEnglish.se search function had been deleted as she couldn't find it. It turned out that she was looking for it on her mobile, and she was quite right. It wasn't there. The magnifying glass was only ...

English Speaking Countries is by far the most visited page in WebEnglish.se, as it is practically the only page where most of the visitors are students. To help your students find the page quickly with the minimum of instruction, the countries are now available on the Homepage: Just scroll down ...

This year and this autumn present many challenges to us and the whole world. WebEnglish.se has published the following theme pages of current topics that teachers may like to incorporate into their (intermediate-level) classes. Black Lives Matter Novel Coronavirus US Presidential Election The U.S. Government For those teachers, who have ...