HUMAN BINGO
Speaking Games: Human Bingo Game It’s said that once one player got so excited that he’d won, he cried ‘Bingo’ instead of ‘Beano’. The name stuck. Acknowledgement: No, I have not invented this game. The game goes back to the year 1530.…
Svetlana Kandybovich
WATCH OUT FOR FREE RIDERS!
“Split into small teams and …”? In 1913, a French scientist Max Ringelmann performed a simple experiment. He asked workers to pull on a rope alone and in groups and measured the strain. As group size increased, the amount of…
UNDER STRESS
Pronunciation Matters: Sentence Stress Nothing teaches a language teacher better than their own foreign language learning experience. The class is over. Time to call a taxi. Dobar dan. Kafe Bahus…Hvala. – Teacher! – Yes, Marko? – You sound like Google Translate!…
THE WIND OF CHANGE
Vocabulary Activities: New English Words A wug lives in a house. What would you call a house that a wug lives in? Like everything else in nature, language is a work in progress. According to the Global Language Monitor, currently there is…
TED TALKS: ONE SIZE FITS ALL
Using TED Talks in the Classroom: Worksheet Template You are a good teacher. You work tirelessly to inspire creativity and motivation in your students. The list of bookmarked TED-videos in your computer is longer than the Great Wall of China. But…
SOUNDS LIKE A STORY
Story Writing: A Sound Story A picture is not the only source that can inspire a thousand words. Sounds may tell a story just as well, leaving much more room to the imagination. The activity I’ll describe today is built around…
MAKE IT PERSONAL: VERB TENSE REVIEW
Noughts and Crosses: Tense Review One of the ways to make learning more effective is to transit from mechanical practice to more engagement with the target grammar or vocabulary focusing on the use of forms for students’ own production of…
10 WAYS TO MAKE GAP-FILLS MORE LEARNING-RICH
I’ve always been fascinated by the story about Betty Crocker and how the company succeeded in designing the experience of making a cake. The company turned the whole process of baking into a simple matter of adding water, but they…
DO YOU SPEAK KINDNESS?
There’s no better time to talk about kindness and positivity than on Random Acts of Kindness Day. It gives me great pleasure to welcome today’s guest blogger, Russie. Russie is a freelance teacher and materials writer based in the UK. In today’s…
VALENTINE’S DAY: SCAVENGER HUNT
What could make a perfect gift to show your love? Valentine’s hearts? Sweet, but a little bit cliche. How about potatoes? Nothing says ‘I love you’ like a potato! (Image: courtesy of Dmitry Chertok) It might seem a weird idea,…
