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.
Fun Speaking Games for Language Learners: The Secret Keeper They say that applicants for membership in secret societies in ancient Greece were voted upon by having the existing members drop ...
They say that in 1500s, when ‘running water’ meant the river, baths consisted of a big tub filled with hot water. The man had the privilege of taking a bath ...
Ole, ole, ole! It's time for football! Tekhnologic and I have worked together to help you 'get the ball rolling' in the classroom. Whether you're a football fan or not, ...
Fun Alphabet Games for Language learners 'A' is for alphabet, 'G' is for ...? Google's choice of 'Alphabet' as its new company's name has generated much buzz in the news ...
Principal: Mr. Madison, what you’ve just said is one of the most insanely idiotic things I have ever heard. At no point in your rambling, incoherent response were you even close ...
Fun First Day of Class Activities A series of recent experiments carried out by psychologists reveal that it takes a tenth of a second to form an impression of a ...
If, in the middle of the lesson, your students: Pretend to communicate with their home planet. Make a paper plane and try to get it stuck in an awkward or unreachable ...
Chicken, chicken, chicken, chicken....Would you like to know what this "chicken" is about and help your learners speak more coherently? I've described a few (hopefully) useful classroom activities in my ...
Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words. Robert Frost Poetry is timeless. Poetry is on the timelines. It isn’t the first time ...
One Reddit user has recently discovered a miniature world inside an old bottle while he was cleaning his yard. The long neck of the bottle creates a sense that you’re ...
Ammon Shea, a 37-year-old former furniture remover in New York, spent 12 months conquering what he describes as the Everest of dictionaries, the Oxford English Dictionary (OED), by ploughing through ...
Have you ever played Mafia? Mafia (also known as Werewolf) is an extremely engaging and fun game that can be used to practise group decision making and communication. The idea of ...
“Nothing worth having comes easily. The enjoyment kicks in when you really start to get it, when you finally meet William Shakespeare on his own turf and his language begins ...
"A bebble from the next torplet came up to the fence around their hucklid and pabt, ‘This is a very swilish tublem’… What do your flimbies say about that?" They ...
This blog post is a summary of the talk Raising Scores: Gamification Activities for Test Preparation Teachers given by Christien Lee, the author of the new Tactics for TOEFL iBT ...
Image credit: Chris Pirillo, Creative Commons Google-Based Games and Activities Whether we like it or not, we are no longer a comprehensive ‘know-it-all’ repository of knowledge in the classroom. Everything we ...
Humor makes the world go round, and All Fools' Day gives us a nice chance to exercise it playing practical jokes and hoaxes. This set of activities may give a ...
They Shall enter the School room quietly, make a bow on entrance. Shall take their seat & keep the same till noon & the seat that they choose afternoon they ...
1. Classical PechaKucha Ask each student to prepare a PechaKucha presentation keeping to the format of 20 x 20. 2. PechaKucha variations Ask students to prepare one PechaKucha presentation per ...
Words with the Suffix '-able': Lesson Plan The ability to use suffixes changing a word from one word class to another is what makes our vocabulary flexible and dynamic. It ...
