
Can fake identity be useful for teachers?
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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!

Want to teach online? RPG comes to the rescue!
I want to share with you an idea of a free platform where you could practise skills required from a professional online teacher.

7 British TV shows you can enjoy with your students
With so many TV shows it has never been easier to immerse into a foreign culture, however I'd like to share some TV shows that may be not so famous among our younger students but which are very important in British pop culture.

7 free lifesaving apps for classroom fun
My classroom policy is very simple: communicating in English and having fun. And whenever I feel less creative, I use one of my favourite free applications on my mobile phone to bring in some fun and discussion - it works every time, so I've decided to share seven of those that never let me down.

Spring poems - lesson plan
I don't usually share lesson plans, but I want to show how combining two various sources may help create something unusual and bring some wow effect to the classroom. Here I mixed environment and writing poems and it worked just great!

Bro, do you even canva?
Robert Greene said "creativity is a combination of discipline and childlike spirit". I know, believe me, as I spent my May mini-break making various Canva projects and my head is spinning with more or less motivational quotes.

7 reasons for going to teachers' conventions
I spent the last weekend in Warsaw where edunation ladies had organised an event for Directors of Studies and proper teachers. It was the first event of its kind and it reminded me a lot of fantasy fans' conventions I used to coordinate *sniff*. Good times...

Twinkl Imagine - check, communicate and chill out
Some time ago I decided to join Twinkl group for bloggers who test this platform and share their ideas. In case you don't know what Twinkl is - it's a mine full of jewels like lesson plans, resources, interactive activities, presentations, posters and loads of ideas for teachers, parents and caretakers. Oh, and homeschoolers.

Pure nonsense in the classroom
My ultimate goal in teaching is, as I've probably mentioned it already, having fun - you can't seriously expect me to be prim and proper at all times, now, can you? It's rather difficult to keep a straight face when your students make you cry from laughter, and that's something that happens to me only too often (bless my students!). With April Fools' Day writing about humour is inevitable - especially that I don't really like pranks and yet bringing humour to the classroom is surely one of my favourite aspects of teaching.

Can we keep our students focused in the classroom?
It's quite easy for me to understand my students being somewhat slow and sloppy, so here are some tricks I use to keep them focused in the classroom because hey, spring or no spring, the Passive must be reviewed.