
Role-Playing Teaching (Part 3: Being a teacher and being a Game Master)
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In my previous articles I briefly described a phenomenon of Role-Playing Games and shared the reasons for which people play games - and enjoy it. Today, I want to demonstrate similarities between teaching and playing RPGs which will help me prove why RPGs can be the ultimate answer to Game-Based Learning approach.

Role-Playing Teaching (Part 2: What are RPGs)
This article is supposed to explain the phenomenon of RPG in general, so that in my future posts I am able to show you my idea of blending games into traditional lessons, creating an approach to TEFL where storytelling and adventure compensate for tedious grammar activities.

7 ideas that might be used for Halloween (or any other spooky lesson)
With the annual influx of Halloween-themed posts by my fellow bloggers I was like "meh, I don't even like Halloween, I guess I only wrote about it once" - so I looked through my own posts and realised my memory is somewhat problematic (it probably goes with my age, ah well...). Having brushed the dust off my old ideas I found six activities more or less connected to this pleasantly grim festivity you may enjoy with your students.

7 YouTube channels to spice up your lessons
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:
