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Hi, I’m Luca. I weave old and new patterns together to develop approaches, techniques, and insights for language education professionals.

Category: Grammar

  • How to teach passives the right way: Thematic relations for language teachers 101

    I don’t know about you, but I find that there are some grammar points that most course books seem to just not be able, for whatever reason, to address properly in their grammar banks at the back of the book. The list varies from textbook to textbook, but there are a few recurrent suspects, especially…

  • The Hidden Role of “That”

    Any TEFL teacher with some experience teaching higher levels will be familiar with this scene. You are teaching a classic reading-guided discovery-practice class, and the lesson is going according to plan. The target grammar for today is a thorny topic: reported speech. When it is time to check students’ comprehension of the guided discovery elicitation…