Teaching Tips & Tricks 6 REASONS WHY I CREATE MY OWN E-LEARNING MATERIALS I’ve recently shared quite a number of digital *homemade materials for learners, including some games, mini-courses, graphic organizers, and more. But ...Read More GOING DIGITAL: FOUR SQUARES FOR BETTER SPEAKING One of the first posts on this blog was GOING GRAPHIC: 4 SQUARES FOR BETTER SPEAKING. It described how to ...Read More 5 WAYS TO USE GOOGLE ASSISTANT IN THE ELT CLASSROOM Last summer I took the plunge and dived in the world of AI, Python and Java-based app developers to see ...Read More SUPERCHARGED INSTRUCTIONS Asking your students the question 'Is everything clear?' after you have given instructions on what to do is as good ...Read More LEARNER’S TOOLKIT v.1 This post is a follow-up to the Teacher's Toolkit Lite. * * * My initial plan to use the Teacher ...Read More TEACHER’S TOOLKIT LITE v.1 Every teacher needs a magical carry-all, sort of Mary Poppins' capacious bag that would contain all 'necessary', 'absolutely necessary' and ...Read More BACK TO SCHOOL: 8 Q&A ACTIVITIES "There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want."— CalvinSo long, summer, we'll miss you.I hope you've all ...Read More 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 ...Read More 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 ...Read More 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 ...Read More 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 ...Read More EVERYDAY MAGIC: MAKING LEARNING VISIBLE - Can you teach me English fast? - What do you mean by fast? - 3 classes. - Do you ...Read More WAIT TIME, THINK TIME How much time do you give to your students to think about your question before asking for an answer? A ...Read More WHICH SEA CREATURE ARE YOU AS A TEACHER? (QUIZ) Take this fun personality quiz to find out which sea creature you are as a teacher! This quiz is based ...Read More HOW TO LEARN NEW WORDS Remembering and using new words in speech is often a challenge for language learners. Quite often, this causes them to ...Read More ‹ 1 2 3 4 › Share this:Tweet Share on Telegram (Opens in new window) Telegram Share on Threads (Opens in new window) Threads Share on Bluesky (Opens in new window) Bluesky Email a link to a friend (Opens in new window) Email Like this:Like Loading...