Make your own cookbook - project

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With new courses approaching it may be nice to launch a long-term project with a pinch of technology, two cups of English and three tablespoons of fun.

"Language Learning with Technology" by Graham Stanley

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What do we do during summer break? We read books about teaching! ... Yes, we're slighly mad :)

Facebook in the classroom?

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Have you ever felt tired with your students checking their mobiles and Facebook updates in the classroom? Maybe you're annoyed with their "I was just checking the word in the dictionary" when you perfectly well know they're simply messaging their Facebook friends? Well, what can I say: if you can't fight'em, join'em!

The Colors of Evil - shortie but goodie :)

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A friend shared this magnificent short animation on facebook and I immediately knew I had to, simply had to use it in the classroom - what's better than pink, fluffy and cuddly evil? Well, yeah, TWO pink fluffy cuddly evils, but I don't have a budget for this. Yet.

New Year, New Year

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Do you believe in magic of New Year's resolutions? Even if I don't really believe any of my students makes an honest resolution to get better in English, well, discussing resolutions is one of the nicer ways to review some grammar constructions we definitely need to remind after - in case of my students - two weeks off.

10 lifesaving websites for ESL teachers

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Lisa has asked me for some recommendations regarding useful sites for EFL teachers and I'm happy to make a little compilation of the places I visit most often to find ideas, inspirations, betimes lesson plans if I feel exceptionally lazy, and share them with you.

So - you'd like to teach online?

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I love teaching online - I'm lucky to work with a good online school as well (good online school is a school that provides you with training, shares teaching materials with you and has supervisors ready to help), and I've been asked by some teachers how I actually got into online teaching and if it's like teaching via Skype. And since I guess it's slightly more complicated than "tutoring via Skype", I've decided to reflect on my journey so far - I know I have much more to learn, but things I've covered so far make me quite prepared to online teaching.

Lateral puzzles, literal fun :)

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It's easier for the adults (they either go abroad or stay in touch with a foreigner - and communicate on their own), it may be more difficult with younger learners simply because they have stuff to learn at school anyway, don't really know WHY they may need English and lose motivation easily.

Blurred grammar with Weird Al

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The last time I wrote about music, and somehow I completely forgot to mention one of the masters of English, the funny, intertextual, one and only Weird Al Yankovic!

First classes dictation to boost motivation

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I found this poem by Chanie Gorkin, and once I saw it, I thought I could use it on my very first classes, to make my students remember.... well, here's the poem I make my students write down as a dictation, line by line (of course, I'll have to adjust vocabulary to my students' proficiency level, but what's so difficult in replacing convince with tell etc.?):

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