New Vocabulary Activity: Describing People

Here is a new vocabulary activity on RoadToGrammar.com. It features 100 words for describing people. Most words are adjectives, such as scruffy, pious or sincere, but some words are nouns, such as geek, loner and troll.

This activity is best suited to learners are B1-B2 level and you can access it with the following link:

http://www.roadtogrammar.com/vocabulary/describingpeople/

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Microlesson: You Drive Me...

This week's microlesson shows several variations of the idiom, "you drive me crazy".

Click the link to see the microlesson:

http://www.roadtogrammar.com/microlessons/?&1&acd

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Microlesson: Flight Attendants and Stewardesses

This week's microlesson shows how language can change over time, using the phrase flight attendant as an example.

Click the link to see the microlesson:

http://www.roadtogrammar.com/microlessons/?&1&acb

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Microlessons: Semicolons

This week's microlesson is on the use of semicolons. This is very useful information for ESL learners who do a lot of writing.

Link:

http://www.roadtogrammar.com/microlessons/index.html?&1&aca

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Parallel Sentences

As your writing improves and you start creating longer sentences, the topic of parallelism becomes important. It means ensuring that all the elements of your sentence co-ordinate with each other.

This is a topic suitable for learners at high B2 level and upwards.

Road to Grammar features a hub on this topic with notes and two activities, all in a business context. Click the link below to start:

http://roadtogrammar.com/businessenglish/biz12/

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Microlesson: Words Ending in Away

This week's microlesson covers a list of words that end in -AWAY.

These words are:

• castaway
• stowaway
• runaway
• faraway
• giveaway
• takeaway
• throwaway

View the microlesson here:

http://www.roadtogrammar.com/microlessons/?&1&abz

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Microlesson: Through, Thorough, Though

This week's microlesson covers a list of words that my students always get confused about.

These words are:

• thorough
• thoroughly
• through
• throughout
• although
• though
• thought
• tough

It's no wonder students get confused - they all look kind of the same, don't they?

View the microlesson here:

http://www.roadtogrammar.com/microlessons/index.html?&1&aby

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Business English Unit 3: Human Resources

Here is the third in the new series of business English units. Rather than an entirely new unit, this is an old unit, updated and reformatted:

http://www.roadtogrammar.com/units/business2/

This unit features:

- Reading

- Listening

- Vocabulary

- Grammar
- Discussion

- Writing

There are both self-study and class study materials.

It works well in class with a smartboard. Alternatively, all materials can be accessed on a smartphone.

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Microlesson: Keep Clean, Keep Healthy

This week's microlesson is "Keep Clean, Keep Healthy".

Teachers, show this to your students before a class on a similar topic!

URL:  http://www.roadtogrammar.com/microlessons/index.html?&1&abx

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New Business English Unit: Making Investments

Here is a new business English unit: Making Investments. It's the second in a new series.

http://roadtogrammar.com/businessenglish/biz11/

This unit features:

- Reading

- Listening

- Vocabulary

- Conversation

- Writing

There are both self-study and class study materials.

It works well in class with a smartboard. 

All materials can be accessed on a smartphone.

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Microlesson: Lifestyles of the Rich

This week's microlesson is "Lifestyles of the Rich".

Teachers, show this to your students before a class on a similar topic!

URL:  http://www.roadtogrammar.com/microlessons/index.html?&1&abw

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New Business English Unit: Large and Small Companies

Here is a new business English unit: Large and Small Companies. It's the first in a new series.

http://roadtogrammar.com/businessenglish/biz10/

This unit features:

- Reading

- Listening

- Vocabulary

- Conversation

- Writing

There are both self-study and class study materials.

It works well in class with a smartboard. 

All materials can be accessed on a smartphone.

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COVID-19 Mirolesson

This week's microlesson is on the COVID-19 virus. This would make a great lead-in for a class discussion of the virus.

You can show the microlesson on a smartboard or ask the students to access it on their smartphones.

URL: http://www.roadtogrammar.com/microlessons/index.html?&1&abu

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Health Vocab Activity

Here is a quick and easy visual vocab activity on the topic of health. It works on phones and smartboards and would make a good warm-up activity for classes. It would be suitable for A2-B1 levels.

I will add a part 2 and part 3 in time, since there is still a lot of vocab on this topic to cover.

URL: http://www.roadtogrammar.com/health/

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Present Perfect Tense Module

This week, I reposted the module on the present perfect tense with a new look, in line with the other materials on the site. This should also make it more user friendly, especially on mobile devices.

You can access these materials here:

http://www.roadtogrammar.com/presperfect

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