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…
TEACHING *FUN*DAMENTALS
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…
5 WEBSITES & TECH TOOLS FOR USERS OF ENGLISH
I often get messages from learners asking various questions related to English. I think their number has tripled since the British Council published my tips for remembering new words in the Voices Magazine (see Ten Ways to Learn New Words as…
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…
CLASS DISCUSSION TECHNIQUES: NO HIDING, NO OVERPOWERING
‘Split into small teams and discuss …’ Why won’t they discuss? There might be a whole lot of reasons for that: I don’t know enough words. I’m worried about my grammar. I’m worried about my pronunciation. I’m not interested in…
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…
LIVEN UP YOUR CLASS: SPOONS
#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 Hana’s blog here and Lina’s blog here). So what you’re…
‘SEASONINGS’ GREETINGS
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 falling plugins, written yearly reviews and kindly shared an array…