SOUND BOARDS
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…
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CHOOSE YOUR OWN ADVENTURE: A READING MAZE
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…
CREATING A CHRISTMAS IDIOMS SCAVENGER HUNT
It’s that time of the year again – the time to prepare and engage in festive activities, and extend warm wishes for a joyous Holiday season. This year, I’ve planned a Christmas idioms scavenger hunt. I’ve already shared an online…
QUESTION CHARTS: ENABLING LEARNER AUTONOMY
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…
TextFX: PLAYING WITH WORDS
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…
LANGUAGE GAMES TO PLAY WITH ChatGPT
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…
HOLY JOLLY AI-GENERATED CHRISTMAS ACTIVITIES
*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.…
CAN YOU TEACH WITHOUT TECHNOLOGY?
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…
12 5-MINUTE VOCABULARY REVISION ACTIVITIES
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…
7 IDEAS FOR PECHA KUCHA IN THE CLASSROOM
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…
