Bruno Leys

Enjoyed myself delivering this CPD session for teachers at #CNO University of Antwerp with a fully engaged and enthusiastic group of teachers. See? I don’t only talk about grammar.😉 Next stop: Lingofest at UCLL Diepenbeek on March 12th.

A WILL+ (bare) infinitive expressing a promise, an engagement and also a comparative and superlative form of ‘fast’ in the same ad. #ReallyRealGrammar #LinguisticLandscapes

Two WILL+infinitive examples. The first one as part of a conditional expressing a promise, an engagement. The second one more of a certainty, you can count on our quality. #ReallyRealGrammar #LinguisticLandscapes

Three imperatives expressing instructions and wishes. #ReallyRealGrammar #linguisticlandscapes

Really enjoyed giving a talk at #CNO Talendag at the University of Antwerp last Friday. A very motivated group of teachers joined in on exploring how we can use accessible poetry as an engaging language learning tool. #elt

News headline on mild earthquake in North England

Present simple for a past event in news headlines. An example showing that we use the tense for much more than just present time reference. #reallyrealgrammar

Guess I’ll be heading to #brighton again next spring. Hope to see many of my #iatefl friends there! And oh yes, surprise surprise, I’ll be talking about grammar teaching 🤭(again).

Who said imperatives are (mainly?) used for orders? #ReallyRealGrammar #LinguisticLandscapes

A typical example of a common conditional (though not so often taught) present simple + imperative for (strong) advice #ReallyRealGrammar #LinguisticLandscapes

Imperatives used as encouragement, rather than orders or instructions. #ReallyRealGrammar #LinguisticLandscapes

Imperative with please for a request and modal might expressing possibility #ReallyRealGrammar #LinguisticLandscapes

Conditional with imperative expressing a request and interesting use of a plural verb (check) with the subject ‘Our team’ - team as a group of people? #ReallyRealGrammar #LinguisticLandscapes

Funny message in the Erasmus Hogeschool canteen at #belta25 with an imperative inspired by the movie Forrest Gump. Once again not an order or command, but rather an encouragement #ReallyRealGrammar #LinguisticLandscapes

Dries Debackere from De Taalsector sharing his main takeaways from #IATEFL2025 at #belta25

Ron Mukerji showing a series of AI tools that can support teachers at #belta25

Mario Lecluyze sharing his experiences with using ChatGPT for marking his students’ writing assignments in his inspiring talk at #belta25

Plenary speaker Grzegorz Spiewak delivering a thought-provoking and engaging talk at #belta25

And #belta25 has started!

One of the two closing plenary speakers, 11-y-old Ali Waters, brought on stage in @emilybrysonelt.bsky.social ‘s workshop at #IATEFL2025

doodling and plenty of visuals in @emilybrysonelt.bsky.social ‘s workshop obviously #IATEFL2025

@emilybrysonelt.bsky.social starting by showing her own role models #IATEFL2025

quoting Desmond Tutu: If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. #IATEFL2025

And sharing some of the responses he received on posting his social media messages on the invasion of Ukraine #IATEFL2025

And sharing some emerging language from the Lexical Lab classroom

Hugh Dellar discussing how we’re shaped as teachers at #IATEFL2025

Big asks at the end of today’s #IATEFL2025 plenary

Neil McMillan including some poetry humour in his highly entertaining plenary at #IATEFL2025

Neil McMillan quoting different findings stating that implicit learning/ knowledge is in fact better #IATEFL2025

This session on linguistic landscape tasks contained fine samples of English and nice learner reflections. #IATEFL2025

Trying out the Lightning Talks format (receptively) #IATEFL2025 Quite a feat to share meaningful content in just three minutes. (And when not meaningful, the pain’s over in just 3 minutes)