I decided to share my ideas on creative use of various simple materials you usually have at hand, as that's how you can easily come up with an extra activity without carrying tons of materials. Last month I wrote about some simple ideas on using toilet paper, and today I want to share my ideas on using a casual, everyday scarf to bring in some extra fun to your classroom.

What's better to start a lesson than a good warm-up activity? I want to share some ideas on why warm-ups are essential. I also want to share some simple and no-prep warm-ups to practise vocabulary, grammar and communication skills.

Do you do Secret Santa with your students? The main problem is that very often people don't know one another and really don't know what to buy, so they go for a random gift (quite logically, a random gift for a random person). So one day I had an idea that turned out to make everybody happy.