This is my treasury of “good ideas”, i.e. some activities and ideas that went well with my classes and proved that they really work in the classroom.
More doesn't always mean better. Smarter is better. One sentence may be as useful for teaching purposes as a wall of text with lots of words. My today's post is a ...
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 ...
Truth, dare, double dare, love, kiss, promise...You may have played and enjoyed this game as a teen. I stumbled upon this version of Truth or Dare shared by from Yulia ...
"There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want."— CalvinSo long, summer, we'll miss you.I hope you've all recharged your batteries, made unforgettable memories and are excited about ...
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 ...
“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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
#LiveningUpTheProcessChallenge Some time ago I was asked on Twitter to share a set of realia or objects I like to bring to teacher training sessions (see Zhenya's blog here and ...
Jingle bells, jingle bells, jingle all the way. Oh what fun it is to pun on a lovely Christmas day! Christmas is on the way - bloggers have activated snow ...
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 ...
It's the most wonderful time of the year, with the kids back to schooling and teachers so dear, it's the happiest season of all. Here are my favourite activities (this ...
There may be many reasons why some people talk a lot but rarely listen. Apparently, they enjoy the sound of their own voice. The hidden reason can be that that's how ...
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 ...
Through #MyClimateAction, National Geographic is sharing amazing stories of guardians of the planet - people who are proving the power of one. This lesson plan is designed around a 5-minute ...
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 ...
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 ...
Finger Twister: the Present Simple Tense Review - Are there any games to teach the Present Simple tense? My kids forget it so quickly. You can turn any drill into ...
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 ...
