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:
Let’s talk about the climate emergency – English vocabulary lesson
5th November 2021Lexical teaching is a great way to get your students' sounding natural, instead of focusing on grammar. Here we look at the climate emergenc [...]
Read More Teaching Listening SkillsHalloween vocabulary in English
29th October 2021Brandishing a magic wand, getting revenge on stingy adults and dressing up... Useful vocabulary for your Halloween English class! [...]
Read More Teaching ideasUse chunking to boost your students’ listening skills
17th February 2021How and why your students can improve by listening out for lexical chunks, and not individual words, followed by a simple classroom exercise [...]
Read More Teaching Listening SkillsImmediate or Delayed Error Correction? Fix learners’ mistakes
21st March 2018Let’s start this post with a bit of well-grounded research. According to John Hattie’s epic meta-study on factors that impact learning t [...]
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