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.
Colouring for Language Learning: A Set of Activities A splash of colour may be all they need. Colouring has become the latest most popular trend for unplugging and taking a ...
It's that time of the year again. The time to decorate the Christmas tree, do Christmas quizzes, make Christmas dishes, browse through the history and traditions of Christmas, or do ...
10 Ways to Gamify Drilling Activities: Make Drilling More Meaningful and FunAll you need is a sheet of paper.* * *This post shows how the use of game mechanics can help ...
"Art is all around us". My today's post is a lesson plan built around Netherlandish Proverbs (Nederlandse Spreekwoorden), a 1559 painting with literal illustrations of 200 Dutch proverbs and idioms by the Flemish ...
My today's post continues the series of posts on crafts and low-cost ideas for the classroom (See CREATIVE LOW-COST TEACHING/LEARNING AIDS to learn how to make low-cost flip cards, small books, ...
English spelling might seem very illogical but it can be learnt through tough thorough thought, though. Only about 12% of words in English are spelt the way they sound. With 26 ...
On Wednesday, I presented the project I’m currently leading at the British Council Teaching for Success Online Conference. [Take a look at the British Council Teaching English conference page where ...
Do your learners like playing games? Today is the first day of another 365-day journey of ELT-CATION around the sun, so I thought it would be a good idea to ...
Our planet holds a wide variety of unexplained phenomena, including the Sphinx, Bermuda Triangle, a Mayan crystal skull, the Great Pyramid, and now the Red Truck. Why on Earth the Jackson ...
Here are my top 10 back-to-school activities that might be a nice alternative to a usual what-did-you-do-this-summer Q&A session. *HUMAN BINGO *MAD LIBS *TELL ME A STORY, GOOGLE What's you ...
Speaking Games: The A-MAZE-ING Game 'If you don't know where you are going, you might wind up someplace else.' A 'maze' principle has been widely used in ELT material design, ...
Speaking Games: Think Positive The creative life is simple: get up, get dressed, get on with it. Chuck Sandy. Creativity is the new Holy Grail of today’s life. The quest ...
I got a 'friendship book' from Sandy Millin on Saturday. I'm returning it today. * * * When I was in school, we had special friendship books to be filled ...
Google-Based Activities for Language Learners There are two kinds of teachers on this planet: those who have Wi-Fi in the classroom and those who don't. This is the second part ...
Speaking Games: Human Bingo Game It's said that once one player got so excited that he’d won, he cried 'Bingo' instead of 'Beano'. The name stuck. Acknowledgement: No, I have not ...
Pronunciation Matters: Sentence Stress Nothing teaches a language teacher better than their own foreign language learning experience. The class is over. Time to call a taxi. Dobar dan. Kafe Bahus...Hvala. - ...
Using TED Talks in the Classroom: Worksheet TemplateYou are a good teacher. You work tirelessly to inspire creativity and motivation in your students. The list of bookmarked TED-videos in your ...
Story Writing: A Sound Story A picture is not the only source that can inspire a thousand words. Sounds may tell a story just as well, leaving much more room to ...
Noughts and Crosses: Tense Review One of the ways to make learning more effective is to transit from mechanical practice to more engagement with the target grammar or vocabulary focusing ...
There's no better time to talk about kindness and positivity than on Random Acts of Kindness Day. It gives me great pleasure to welcome today's guest blogger, Russie. Russie is a freelance ...
