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Posts by Bruno Leys
Former BELTA Belgium plenary speaker Tyson Seburn exposing an ‘erasure’ degree of heteronormality in published ELT materials. #iatefl2026
Questions raised by today’s plenary speaker Patricia Angoy #iatefl2026
IATEFL president Chris Graham opening this year’s conference #iatefl2026
Some more questions to the subject - present simple (without auxiliary TO DO) in this Hamilton programme #ReallyRealGrammar #LinguisticLandscapes
Example of a present simple question to the subject (so without auxiliary TO DO) #ReallyRealGrammar #LinguisticLandscapes
Several question types in this ad: Present simple question word question with TO BE, a Yes/No question and a question tag question. At the bottom a WILL+ infinitive question, as a call for action. #ReallyRealGrammar #LinguisticLandscapes
Interesting to see both GOING TO and WILL for future reference being used in a single cartoon. The WILL for me sounds more definitive, certain. Would you agree? #ReallyRealGrammar #LinguisticLandscapes
In informal spoken(-like) English, present simple questions often occur without the auxiliary ‘to do’. #ReallyRealGrammar #LinguisticLandscapes
Glad to play my part in this wonderful event once more! #iatefl #iatefl2026
I had a great time doing this session with an enthusiastic and engaged group of English language teachers at #Lingofest 2027 in UCLL Hasselt today.
A great event year after year!
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
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).
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
Mario Lecluyze sharing his experiences with using ChatGPT for marking his students’ writing assignments in his inspiring talk at #belta25
One of the two closing plenary speakers, 11-y-old Ali Waters, brought on stage in @emilybrysonelt.bsky.social ‘s workshop at #IATEFL2025