The most important thing when it comes to the unavoidable (one's bound to encounter rebels when teaching teenagers, there is no escape from chaos - it marks us all) is to react immediately. Not for us Obama-like approach, no, we have to be swift and smooth and deal with the rebels changing them into the paragons of English students ;) Or at least try - because in order to change our students (or rather their attitude) we must try to understand them... and it's not easy, trying to understand people who don't understand themselves!

Teaching young adults I came to realize that most of them study English not because they want to, but because their parents make them. I will never forget one of my students, who bitterly commented my idea of brightening the classes with a grammar game. 'Grammar games are like playing with the devil' - said Ania and little did she know how inspiring her words were.

Mr. Graham Stanley made a really nice presentation at the IATEFL conference and I enjoyed it immensely as it covers my field of interest - games and creative teaching. I do recommend watching this video as it is short (20 mins) and really funny, but let me sum it up a bit.