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…
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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…
STEP BY STEP: WORD PAIRS (GUEST POST)
“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…
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…
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…
VIDEOGLOSS: CHOCOLATE ROULADE
Here’s a riddle for you: “How many words is a wordless video actually worth?” According to Dr. James McQuivey’s ‘equation’, if a picture is worth a thousand words, then a one-minute video has to be worth exactly 1.8 million words. 1…
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…
JUST GOOGLE IT: MAN VS. WOMAN
What comes to your mind when you hear the word ‘manpower’? A. Working men B. The Marlboro Man C. Working women. Really? On the International Women’s day, the British Council ran a fantastic webinar NON-GENDERED LANGUAGE: HOW TO TEACH IT, SHOULD WE…
