THIS IS JUST TO SAY: GUESSING GAME
Poetry, synthetic voices, and what makes us human This is just to say I made a video for students to guess – human or AI? It went well,so fun,so full of surprise. I’ve already shared a few activities based on…
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A READER’S THEATRE: THE ADVENTURE OF THE THREE STUDENTS
Read-alouds in turns, anyone? Any fans of RAT – reading aloud in turns from a text – here? It’s probably not the most popular technique these days, to say the least. I reckon it might rank second among the most…
THE GIFT OF THE MAGI: MAKING AUTHENTIC TEXTS ACCESSIBLE
Making Authentic Input More Accessible: Elaborated Input Cheers to 2025 and the thrill of new experiments! All experiments begin with good ideas. I’ve never been a huge fan of adapted versions. Authentic language? Gone. Nuance? Bye-bye. That said, I can…
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…
CREATIVE THINKING: WALKING THROUGH WORDS
Worlds behind Words: Poetry in the Classroom Here’s a little test for you. One of these two aliens is a ‘kiki’, and the other one is a ‘bouba’. Which is which? Have you picked ‘kiki’ for the left alien and…
PUZZLE IT OUT
Sometimes the short poems are the hardest to write, change one word and the whole poem avocados. – Atticus Creating your own logic puzzle is no different. Forget one word, and your puzzle turns into the next Sphinx’s riddle. HOW…
LOVE IS IN …
People see love in the simplest things like the scent of rain, the taste of burek, or the sound of ‘new’ words in their student’s answer…Well, the latter is probably more about teachers. Anyway, love is in the air. And…
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,…
