or How to Quickly Make Your Materials Interactive Technically, I should start with a catchy introduction. But I doubt I can top an AI platform’s pitch for their AI-powered feedback tool (spotted their ad on Facebook yesterday): ‘I showed this…
With so many new AI-driven tools popping up, it’s easy to get lost. Is it even possible to try all of them? Well, is it even necessary? During a recent CPD session for in-service teachers, I was asked to define…
Sound Effects for ELT: A Sound Way to Energise Your Language Classes Or, a sound start to the new year after a relaxing break! A few weeks ago I was trying to find a good fluency activity that would make…
It’s Saturday. Your long-awaited day off at the very end of the year. A new ELT-related article pops up in your blog news feed. C’mon, it’s Saturday! Who reads blog posts on weekends, anyway? Go to Card 2. Sounds fun, I’ll…
As the followers of this blog know, I’ve been exploring generative AI (genAI) for quite a while to find areas where this technology may be useful for language teachers and help us do something that was quite challenging, if not…
So tomorrow is Shakespeare Day, remember? Have you prepared your arsenal of tried and tested activities yet? Or has the Bard become totally irrelevant? I’ve recently had an amazing podcast experience taking part in the British Council podcast on the…
Here’s one of my recent experiments with GenAI. I hope you find it useful. Scripted Conversation Generator helps create engaging dialogues for language learners. Need inspiration or more information? Make sure to read How to Use the Generator below to…
Looking for ways to support your neurodivergent learners? In my recent opinion article, Opportunity or Remix, to Larry Ferlazzo’s How To Use AI Tools to Support English-Language Learners, featured in Education Week, I outlined a few use cases of GenAI…
Ready for a pronunciation challenge? As I am closing down My English Domain website for learners, and moving my ELTCATION blog to its own domain, I am moving some posts here to make them available for teachers. The modules and…
How do you structure small group discussions to ensure full student engagement? ‘Wise men speak when they have something to say. Fools speak because they have to say something.’ — Plato ‘Reluctant speakers try to avoid speaking both when they…
