Asking your students the question “Is everything clear?” after you have given instructions on what to do is as good as useless. Most students just don’t want or may be too shy to admit that they don’t understand something, or…
Christmas and New Year-Related Games It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas everywhere you go…♪ ♫ ♪ ♫ It’s that time of the year again, the time to do festive spirit activities and wish you very Happy Holidays. Last…
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 collection of one-sentence games (see Word Games if you’d like to try…
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…
This post is a follow-up to the Teacher’s Toolkit Lite. * * * My initial plan to use the Teacher Toolkit to equip small groups of students with dice and various cards (as part of my Save Trees, Save the…
Every teacher needs a magical carry-all, sort of Mary Poppins’ capacious bag that would contain all ‘necessary’, ‘absolutely necessary’ and ‘could be handy’ teacher stuff and supplies, including ‘an apron, a packet of hairpins, a bottle of scent, a small…
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 in her Discover English Teaching group the other day, and I…
“There’s never enough time to do all the nothing you want.”— Calvin So long, summer, we’ll miss you. I hope you’ve all recharged your batteries, made unforgettable memories and are excited about your upcoming ‘new year’. Here are my favorite…
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…
This post is a write-up of my workshop Teaching Fun*damentals: 10 Ways to Add Fun to Learning which I gave at the ELTAM Day held by the Montenegrin English Teachers’ Association on May 5, 2018. A huge thank you to…