Question Charts and Developing Learner Autonomy with AI Have you ever used Question Charts or Q-Charts as a resource for your students’ learning? Q-charts are excellent tools that can be used to practise speaking, writing, reading, and listening, and develop…
Have you tried TextFX yet, or Get Inspired If you haven’t given TextFX a try yet, you’re in for a real treat. This isn’t another ‘save time for busy teachers’ tool – it’s more like a creative spark for language…
Games to play with AI-driven chatbots A common-sense warning: Before you assign any game with ChatGPT or an AI-driven chatbot, teach your students how to use this powerful tool sensibly and responsibly, i.e., make sure they know its basic principles…
*I wrote this post a year ago, so some things in the world of AI have changed. If you haven’t found ‘the’ idea, try our Five-Minute Activity Generator. Add information relevant to your class and include Christmas in the topic.…
Let’s get ready to rumble! Fight, fight, fight, fight! It’s EdTech Vs Good Teachers: Who Wins and Who Loses? These days we receive so much training on the ‘how-tos’ of using technology, mostly represented by tech tools for creating online…
Need to fit vocabulary revision into an hour? Here’s a short post on how to use revision clocks to review any themed vocabulary your students have studied. Resources: A sheet of paper if you have limited classroom resources, or the…
Following up on the fascinating post by Tekhnologic providing an interesting insight into the use of the PechaKucha presentation style in a low-tech classroom It’s Time for PechaKucha: Do it with Style, I’ve put together 7 ideas for PechaKucha style classroom activities*. ‘You…
Fun brain teasers for language learners I’ve just added two more language brain teasers to my Top 10 of Top 100 brain teasers that work in the classroom and get learners to think about the subtleties of the language. They…
Tomorrow is April 1, and that means only one thing – it’s time to let your inner prankster out! My April Fool’s Day Pranks for 2022: There’s Nothing Like Home-Grown Spaghetti Picked Fresh from the Tree Follow the steps in…
“Halloween is in the air, the moon is full, beware beware!” Halloween is most definitely in the air. I got quite a lot of positive feedback on my recent Music Idioms Gallery Walk so I decided to explore a bit further…