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Last Minute Ideas for St. Patrick's Day

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Tomorrow is St. Paddy's Day, the day pretty much everyone tries to be Irish! I found some interesting and easy-to-use resources you can share with your students without previous planning - just to have fun and inspire a short discussion.

Role-Playing Summer: ideas and inspirations

As I wrote in my last post, I'm not writing anything this July - but I share short videos on my FB where you can watch me talking about my favourite RPGs. The first part is about Call of Cthulhu and other RPGs related to H.P. Lovecraft's Mythos. I believe these are the games that EFL teachers will find easy to start with.

Memome for everyone - practising comparatives

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When a friendly neighbourhood Teacher's Corner introduced a new game called Memome, I thought, it's basically just a typical memo activity. And to be honest, I was right... but it turns out to be much more versatile.

I Like to Move It, Move It (lesson idea)

Have you ever taken part in something we call YouTube Party? It happens when you meet friends, chat a bit and suddenly someone goes like "have you seen this video on YouTube?"... and you're doomed; you know that for the next two hours you'll be watching random stuff telling you more than you want about your mates' interests. The curse (or the blessing) of a creative teacher is when you see such material you know it's literally ready to wrap it up in some more or less educational principles and you're ready to go with a lesson.

StoryBits Kids

Some time ago I wrote about StoryBits, a simple yet creative tool to implement storytelling into your class. I found it a pretty nice "last resort" tool as you can use it when your class gets awkwardly silent - just pick a card and think about something you can use it for. This autumn brought a much-welcome variation of the original game, StoryBits Kids.

Hansel, Gretel and the police (no-prep lesson idea)

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I used brothers Grimm and their story as an inspiration for a great lesson idea that worked well for my students (both for my teens aged 13+ as well as adults), so naturally I want to share it with you - so whenever you feel slightly mischievous and have no lesson plan ready, you may go with a tale and a twist.

Have a Purrrfect Lesson! (7 Lesson Ideas)

If you're not really into dark and grim Halloween but still want to enjoy some cheer, you will find my ideas quite inspiring. Here's what I thought - if I were to prepare a lesson that may be perfect for Halloween... but not too halloweenish, I'd go for something that may symbolise Samhain, but not overly extravagant.

More stories: StoryBits

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It looks like November is more of a storytelling month than I thought - last week I shared the storytelling coursebook (remember about the contest, you can win a copy of the book!), and today I'll show you the magic of pictures: Storybits.

It's alive! Alive! (Role-Playing Teaching: Part 19)

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You can watch my first workshop on RPG in teaching ever - it was recorded last year, on Zlot Nauczycieli Angielskiego. I talked about RPGs, showed some easy exercises and was terribly stressed!

Get Ready For School: Teacher's Pack

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I've read through my blog (almost 200 posts!) and found all the notes that may be an inspiration before you embark on yet another year-long school adventure. All of the ideas were tested on human beings and all of us not only survived, but had quite a lot of fun.

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