HOCUS POCUS
Halloween-Related Activities When you are a teacher and you’ve seen it all, it takes more than a few dancing skeletons and a couple of ghosts to send shivers down your spine. ‘Shadows from the lamplight stole across her desk at…
Category games
TRUTH OR DARE
Truth, dare, double dare, love, kiss, promise…You may have played and enjoyed this game as a teen. I stumbled upon this version of Truth or Dare shared by from Yulia in her Discover English Teaching group the other day, and I…
SNAIL RACE: REVISION
And the least wonderful time of ‘lucky’ t-shirts, no bath, ‘magic’ pens and vows of silence is just around the corner. I’ve also decided to add some charm into revision classes. Here’s a game you can play with your learners to…
THE NEVER BORING GAME
Board Games to Learn English Did you know that Parker Brothers prints 30 times more Monopoly money every year than the United States prints real money? Shock horror. Has anyone counted the number of game boards and worksheets printed out by teachers…
PHRASAL VERBS: SPIDER’S WEB
One of the most effective ways to teach phrasal verbs (or any other new words) is to get your learners to talk about themselves and use respective phrasal verbs. This is a vocabulary game originally designed for learners of business…
LIVEN UP YOUR CLASS: SPOONS
#LiveningUpTheProcessChallenge Some time ago I was asked on Twitter to share a set of realia or objects I like to bring to teacher training sessions (see Zhenya’s blog here and Hana’s blog here and Lina’s blog here). So what you’re…
‘SEASONINGS’ GREETINGS
Jingle bells, jingle bells, jingle all the way. Oh what fun it is to pun on a lovely Christmas day! Christmas is on the way – bloggers have activated snow falling plugins, written yearly reviews and kindly shared an array…
A PENNY FOR YOUR THOUGHTS
There may be many reasons why some people talk a lot but rarely listen. Apparently, they enjoy the sound of their own voice. The hidden reason can be that that’s how they (were taught to) see communication. Talk. Talk. Wait for…
ALPHABET RACE
It’s that time of the year when teachers can finally breathe again and take an inventory of their toolkits. Brain breaks and time fillers It’s always a good idea to have a few fun activities up your sleeve as a…
FOLDABLE WORD GAMES: 2 in 1
Foldable Word Builder for Low Resource Classrooms Here’s a new addition to my WORD GAMES collection (see some of the games in my WORD GAMES post) – the Foldable Word Builder-Word Search Game. It is a Build a Word version…
