Confession time. I like to add a personal touch to my presentations by sneaking in an Easter egg – or a couple – hidden surprises. I know they may go unnoticed (and in most cases, they do), but I love…
Designing multimodal activities for language students Busy? Same here. I was working on a new set of multimodal tasks for assessment, but, as usually happens, I came up with something extra – a new idea to add to my favourite…
With so many new AI-driven tools popping up, it’s easy to get lost. Is it even possible to try all of them? Well, is it even necessary? During a recent CPD session for in-service teachers, I was asked to define…
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…
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…
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…
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…
“Mr Walker will explain the nuts and bolts” “Nuts and bolts! I thought we were talking about marketing French fries!” In this guest post, Daria Vaskova – our fellow English language teacher and teacher trainer – shares with us a few…
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…
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…
