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It's my birthday note - the first one, as I haven't yet celebrated my own birthday on the blog. I want to thank you all for encouragement and support, for visiting my page and following me on Facebook - you're awesome! - and, especially for my new readers I want to share a list of my most popular blog entries - they're full of ideas you may adjust to various groups of students, so I believe you'll find them useful.

How to survive a school year when it's only September?
I've already survived a back-to-school time before an actual back-to-school madness and I'm still hyped, creative and eager to try new things (I'm quite lucky my new job is full of challenges), so I've decided to share some of my ideas on how to unwind and survive yet another year without sanity loss.

Role-Playing Teaching (Part 9: Madness is Magic)
After a series of theoretical reflections, I want to offer you a unique experience of taking part in a RPG session designed for EFL teachers. If you're lucky enough to take part in 4th Teachers' Convention in Stryszawa (23-27.07.2018) or IATEFL in Wrocław (21-23.09.2018) you may have an opportunity of not only taking part in my workshop Role-Playing Teaching: Madness is Magic, but also enjoying a session as a player, with me as a game master.

Role-Playing Teaching (Part 7: For Those About to Roll)
The following note is a rough translation of the post Erpegi na pierwszy raz. The author, Michał Laskowski, kindly agreed to me translating and sharing his work. It is originally meant for people who are already familiar with RPGs, so I believe you already know enough of theory and it's high time to start playing on your own!

Role-Playing Teaching (Part 6: Game Mechanics)
I don't think I can move forward in writing about RPGs without discussing the mechanics. If you haven't played any proper RPGs before, you probably won't know that this aspect of games has been discussed for years, and involved: fandom wars, friendships ruined (seriously, been there) and physical injuries (OK, I might exaggerate a bit here) by almost all RPG players (minus D&D players who simply watch from the sidelines and eat popcorn ;) ).

Role-Playing Teaching (Part 5: Character Creation)
It's the fifth part of my Role-Playing Teaching series of articles and I can proudly say that we're done with theory - today we're going to start working on a proper RPG. Before we go on an adventure we need to create Players' Characters. Since we're going to talk on various topics during character creation, the minimum level required is A2+.

Role Playing Teaching (Part 4: Games From Distant Worlds)
Today I want to share some examples of the environments and systems you may enjoy with your students. You may take your students to the adventure in the Wild West followed by a crime story a'la film noir in an urban fantasy setting.

Role-Playing Teaching (Part 3: Being a teacher and being a Game Master)
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.