Author name: Derek Haines

Derek Haines is an author of a number of books, however, he spends most of his time blogging, making technology go wrong, and being a rather senior ESL English teacher. Born in Australia, but now living in Switzerland with his wife and his black Cocker Spaniel, he spends most of his time trying to make technology work again, after inadvertently breaking it. It's a painful process, yet such an effective self-study method to acquire new technology skills. As a writer - I can change adroitly into the first person, and say that I love what I do and where I live, and also, that I am a Douglas Adams fanatic, bordering on a tragic. So much so, that by some spooky coincidence, my street address is 42. That’s better than just owning a few towels. I also, quite like commas. The Oxford type or otherwise. As an ESL teacher, I am a firm believer in the Direct Method, which means that I like my students to do all the hard work and not me. Most of all, I enjoy life and gladly take each breath as it comes.

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Free ESL Lesson Plan – Personal Information – Advanced

Personal Information – Advanced This is one of my favourite lessons, as it is suitable for both FCE (B2) and CAE (C1) levels and takes no preparation time at all. However, it is a highly productive lesson, where you can uncover many basic errors that students still make at these higher levels. Start by having students […]

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ESL TEFL Teaching Ideas – What You Can Do In 10 Minutes

Teaching Ideas My days of teacher training and twenty-eight teaching hours per week are well and truly behind me now, but I am still happily teaching business English in Switzerland part-time. Whether you teach twenty-eight hours or three hours a week, I hope that by applying some of the ten-minute TEFL ideas I have used

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Free ESL Lesson Plan Worksheet – Using Adjectives With Gerunds

Adjectives with gerunds This lesson comes with worksheets for either B1 or FCE B2 levels. A set of 32 images is used to help students find a suitable adjective to use before each gerund image. Grocery shopping or window cleaning for example. After completing the grill, there is a question and answer speaking activity for both

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Free ESL Lesson Worksheet – Gerunds After Prepositions

Gerunds After Prepositions A revision activity for B1 students to use the gerund after dependent prepositions. Ideal for home study. To find more related worksheets, either click on the categories, which are listed under the page title, or on the tag links at the bottom of this page. To search for other topics, use the

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