Gabriel Clark
Gabriel Clark is an English teacher with 12 years’ experience and an MA in TESOL and Applied Linguistics from Portsmouth University. He’s the “Clark” in Clark and Miller (www.clarkandmiller.com), a website that focuses on giving learners a deeper understanding of how English works through online courses and a blog that often features giraffes. He can be found giving talks at conferences, cycling around post-Soviet neighbourhoods or performing music in empty bars.
Posts by Gabriel Clark:
I’m bored | Upper-intermediate vocabulary lesson | Natural English phrases
16th March 2022Sometimes, when we look at all the millions of words and phrases there are out there to teach our students, we can get totally overwhelmed. [...]
Read More Teaching Listening SkillsGot anything on this weekend?
9th March 2022Why do we teach things like ‘What are you doing?’ when most people usually say, “What are you up to?” Teachers have discussed it for [...]
Read More Teaching Lexis“Chill! I will!” Intermediate English Lesson – Auxiliary Verbs
2nd March 2022Tatcher had an excellent sense of humour and said: “Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren't.� [...]
Read More Teaching Lexis“I can’t get the stupid thing to work!” Natural English listening practice
23rd February 2022Technology! We’re stuck with it, and with computers, apps, software and websites, about a million things can go wrong. And they do go wron [...]
Read More Teaching LexisLet’s talk about… the Time: Intermediate English lesson
9th February 2022What we usually teach at low levels is the "survival language", but it often isn't actually what we use when communicating at a higher level [...]
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