TED to fight tedious classes. TED-based activities for practical English classes – a report

n 2024, Małgorzata Karczewska, PhD, Assistant Professor at the University of Zielona Góra, Poland, published an e-book titled TED to fight tedious classes. TED-based activities for practical English classes. The e-book is based on the author’s experience as a practical English teacher working with English Philology students. During her classes, Dr. Karczewska uses TED-based content mainly for listening classes, but in the e-book, exercises aiming at developing speaking and writing skills, as well as practicing grammar and expanding vocabulary resources are offered. The idea to use TED content stemmed from the will to make classes more intriguing for rather advanced speakers of English. The TED website offers free access to both talks and lessons on various topics of different duration, which allows teachers to adjust the teaching material to the needs of a given group of learners. In addition, subtitles in English and many other languages are available, which facilitates learning, especially self-study. In the e-book, only TED lessons, and not TED talks, are used as a base for exercises. The e-book is divided into four main parts, namely

Active listening · Grammar · Philology · Vocabulary · Second Language Learning and Teaching