
7 YouTube channels to spice up your lessons
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If you teach teenagers or digitally aware adults you may enjoy a little YT party as well, just try to moderate the videos presented by students as some of the videos may turn out to be somewhat inappropriate.
If you want to avoid potential embarrassment, try to show some EFL-friendly channels. Don't know which ones are worth recommendation? Well, I've shortlisted some nice channels and hope you'll find them enjoyable.

Bored in the classroom? Let's visit England!
I was looking for a nice book focused not only on culture itself, but using cultural topics as an element of a proper, language-oriented lesson. I used to prepare such classes by myself (with a little help of the Internet), but when at IATEFL conference I saw a book, titled Let's Visit England by Polonsky, I knew I had to buy it.

7 Free Online Courses in September
If you feel you could do with a little bit of learning yourselves, worry not - here's my traditional set list of seven great courses you may enjoy in September: they're online, they're free, they're awesome! And since I remember how hectic Septembers can be for teachers, I've tried to find courses that are either short or self-paced, so you can start them on your own.

From Goal Setting to the Effect - workshop with Luiza Wójtowicz-Waga
I've been learning Spanish for a while now and it's been a great time, save for a time when my profesora was replaced by a native. The new profesora was a really nice lady, I guess, and a teacher with an impressive potential for development; the thing was, however, we had no proper coursebook and relied on her materials... and I had no idea what was going on in the class, what new skills I developed, what things I was supposed to learn. I tried talking to her DoS, but soon I got frustrated and eventually I quit.

7 lifesaving websites for EFL teacher
I already made one list of my favourite websites months ago, but there are so many great things you find while websurfing that I'll probably make more of such sets.
Also, it can be easily seen that I love making lists.

Role-Playing Teaching (Part 1:Why do we play games?)
Today I want to focus on the idea of a game - it can be easily observed that games are more and more popular in TEFL, and in teaching in general, they are enjoyed by students and teachers alike and I wonder: have you ever thought what is the reason of the enjoyment?

5 things I should've been told when I was a rookie teacher
Being a DoS means also recruiting new teachers, and then training them to meet up the standards of our school - and this inspires me to share 5 things someone should've told me when I started teaching years ago.
Someone should have - but I had no DoS, and even though teaching runs in my blood, there are some things I had to discover by myself:

Bored on your summer break? Let's make a board game!
We're getting more and more games in our school, but still there are some beyond our reach - too complex to explain in class, not communicative enough, or simply - impossible to buy (out of stock, waiting for second print, huh). And since we all know that desperate times call for desperate measures, we basically change the official ideas into DIY games.

Summer school madness - 8 tips from a survivor
A friend of mine is joining a summer school in England for the very first time and asked me to write some tips for summer school virgins. Here we go, then - if I managed to survive, so will you!

Can fake identity be useful for teachers?
Today I'm going to show you something you might not have thought of using, and which proves that a teacher role for today is almost a secret agent!