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EFL teachers and writers. Online teacher- and language-development courses all year round. Annual face-to-face summer school in north London. Check out our website to learn more: www.lexicallab.com
Speak good English but want to refine things further? Need to speak advanced English for your career? Our next batch of four-week Advanced English classes starts next Wednesday and Saturday. Book your place today: www.lexicallab.com/learn-englis...
02.08.2025 00:00 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
#EFL #ELT #learnEnglish This is my last video for a while as I'm off on holiday next week. It was inspired by a conversation I had with one of the teachers I've been working with here in London for the last fortnight about her holidays this summer.
18.07.2025 06:49 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
#EFL #ELT #LearnEnglish Today's ONE-MINUTE ENGLISH video was inspired by the sorry spectacle of President Trump's speech yesterday – made after proclaiming how angry he was with Vladimir Putin.
16.07.2025 07:09 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Facebook has just informed me that it was nine years ago today that I took receipt of the very copies of our methodology book, ‘Teaching Lexically’! Have YOU read it yet?
15.07.2025 07:38 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
#EFL #ELT #learnEnglish Today's ONE-MINUTE ENGLISH video was inspired by a conversation I had with my daughter about what seemed to me to be a rather drastic step she'd taken after finishing her exams.
14.07.2025 08:36 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
#EFL #ELT #learnEnglish Today's ONE-MINUTE ENGLISH video was inspired by a brief conversation with a couple of students who were struggling to come up with ideas when doing an ice-breaker.
11.07.2025 05:21 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
#EFL #ELT #LearnEnglish Today's ONE-MINUTE ENGLISH video was inspired by a very angry businessman who tried to squeeze his way into a train carriage that was already full to bursting point.
09.07.2025 06:37 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
#EFL #ELT #learnEnglish Today's ONE-MINUTE ENGLISH video was inspired by a chat with my daughter about what happened in the two episodes she missed of the TV drama we're watching as a family at the moment.
07.07.2025 05:13 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Our next four-week advanced online English classes start next week. As always, we offer all-new material based on contemporary topics; we provide input based on your output; and we build revision and recycling into everything we do. Check out what's on offer here: www.lexicallab.com/learn-englis...
05.07.2025 08:39 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
#EFL #ELT #learnEnglish Today's ONE-MINUTE ENGLISH video was inspired by an old interview I heard with the directors of London Zoo, recorded soon after government funding had dried up.
04.07.2025 06:10 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
#EFL #ELT #learnEnglish Today's ONE-MINUTE ENGLISH video was inspired by a brief exchange of messages I had with a young teacher looking for work experience here in the UK.
02.07.2025 07:38 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
#EFL #ELT #learnEnglish Today's ONE-MINUTE ENGLISH video was inspired by the rather shocking realisation this morning that I seem to be turning into my father – at least in terms of the phrases I find myself using!
30.06.2025 06:15 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Today at 17.00 London time, I'll be doing another of my regular Lives with a Ukrainian teacher of English. Dmytro was born and raised in temporarily occupied Luhansk, and has been living and working in Kyiv since June 2014. Please do join us. www.instagram.com/hugh_dellar/
29.06.2025 07:01 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
#EFL #ELT #learnEnglish Today's ONE-MINUTE ENGLISH video was inspired by a radio news story about Trump's deranged Tweeting about the fact he's not looking likely to win the Nobel Peace Prize any time soon. www.youtube.com/watch?v=xrFs...
27.06.2025 06:27 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
#EFL #ELT #learnEnglish Today's ONE-MINUTE ENGLISH video was inspired by a very entertaining chat with an incredibly drunk guy outside a hotel in Dublin last week! www.youtube.com/watch?v=bcxT...
25.06.2025 06:29 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
#EFL #ELT #learnEnglish Today's ONE-MINUTE ENGLISH video was inspired by a brief conversation with an old friend of mine when we met to have lunch earlier today.
23.06.2025 06:59 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Estonia’s digging anti-tank trenches and building bunkers along its border with Russia, with plans for up to 28 bunkers and 10 storage sites by 2025. Latvia and Lithuania are set to build similar defenses too.
20.06.2025 11:30 — 👍 346 🔁 55 💬 8 📌 5
#EFL #ELT #learnEnglish Today's ONE-MINUTE ENGLISH video was inspired by a conversation on a flight home from Dublin with a guy sat next to me who works as a content creator. www.youtube.com/watch?v=J5pw...
20.06.2025 06:28 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
#EFL #ELT #learnEnglish Today's ONE-MINUTE ENGLISH video was inspired by a conversation with an old mate of mine in a pub that claims to be one of the oldest in London! www.youtube.com/watch?v=iw2r...
18.06.2025 06:06 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0How many items of vocabulary do you typically revise at any one time when designing a revision exercise or task? What about in a revision lesson?
17.06.2025 13:34 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
#EFL #ELT #LearnEnglish Today's ONE-MINUTE ENGLISH was inspired by an old friend of mine explaining to my daughter why he'd been so into History when he was at school. www.youtube.com/watch?v=gTjG...
16.06.2025 07:23 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
I really enjoyed this long chat with Arthur Damião Médici for his new YouTube channel. We discussed everything from my professional trajectory to my route into publishing, from how our books have been received to my basic go-to strategies in class: www.youtube.com/watch?v=T230...
14.06.2025 09:26 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
#EFL #ELT #learnEnglish Today's ONE-MINUTE ENGLISH video was inspired by one of my wonderful Ukrainian students turning up in class looking most unlike her usual lively self. www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Pjw...
13.06.2025 08:04 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
#EFL #ELT #learnEnglish Today's ONE-MINUTE ENGLISH video was inspired by one conversation about how a student of mine was coping with the heatwave where she is – and another about a piece of music that always hits hard.
11.06.2025 06:15 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Our latest blog posts explores some of the secrets of effective teaching and asks whether it's method that makes a great teacher or something else.
10.06.2025 06:13 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
#EFL #ELT #LearnEnglish Today's ONE-MINUTE ENGLISH video was inspired by a story a student told about a rather awkward encounter she had when she out doing a bit of shopping.
09.06.2025 06:13 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
#EFL #ELT #learnEnglish Today's ONE-MINUTE ENGLISH video was inspired by a quick pre-lesson chat with a student who turned up in class in a remarkably chipper mood!
06.06.2025 04:21 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
#EFL #ELT #learnEnglish Today's ONE-MINUTE ENGLISH video was inspired by a student of mine who was starting to have second thoughts abut her long-held dream of taking her ids to Disneyland!
04.06.2025 06:05 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
#EFL #ELT #learnEnglish Today's ONE-MINUTE ENGLISH was inspired by having to work out the logistics of my forthcoming trip to Poland!
02.06.2025 06:11 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
There's a new blog post up on our site, looking at an unorthodox but potentially fruitful way of using translation in the classroom. www.lexicallab.com/2025/05/word...
31.05.2025 08:52 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
