Abstract The present paper summarizes the main kinds of authentic materials to be employed in the ESL classroom. Therefore, newspapers, magazines, letters, advertisements and non-prose texts (everyday notices, maps and charts) are analysed in didactic terms considering some activity types as well as the possible benefits and drawbacks as far...

Abstract Teaching phrasal verbs to Spanish students is a difficult area for Secondary Education and Post Compulsory Education Students. For that reason, and considering the lack of available materials, a research was carried out on the explicit teaching of the causative and metaphorical meanings of prepositions in order to check if their...