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What shall we do with a rebellious student...

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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!

Don't panic and use warm-ups :)

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What can we do with teenagers? Those sleepy, yawning, not really interested in learning teenagers? What can you do to wake them up, or make them switch off their mobile phones? Give them a nice warm-up, sure!

Come to the Dark Side, we have cookies!

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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.

Deadly Islands (end of a course activity for pre-int+)

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This is my absolutely favourite project ever. I love it, it has always worked for me and my students and I had a lot of fun with it!

Dixit - a nice game for the end of a course

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I want to share a really nice board game called Dixit. I used to play it with friends, but I decided to try it with my intermediate+ students who apparently fell in love with the game. It's very easy to play and is perfect as an activity at the end of the course when the students know each other and are used to their specific ways of thinking.

Creative pedagogy, language learning and technology - IATEFL presentation by Mr. Graham Stanley

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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.

IATEFL Opening Plenary by David Crystal

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Yesterday David Crystal officially opened Liverpool IATEFL conference with an awesome plenary - The world in which we live in: Beatles, blends and blogs. You may watch this session and hopefully enjoy it as much as I have, but let me share a couple of thoughts.

THE book a teacher should have

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It was a couple of years after I graduated when I took part in a contest by Macmillan and won a book. Any book from their offer, I remember it well. How wisely did I choose deciding on a book called 700 Classroom Activities by David Seymour and Maria Popova from Macmillan Books for Teachers series! It appeared to be the best book a teacher could get  - at least, a teacher like me.

Stories and storytelling

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I've written about one of my favourite games, Once Upon a Time... and today I present a lesson plan to cover introduction to storytelling.

Once Upon a Time...

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One of the best activities in the classroom for students of all ages is definitely playing games. And one of the best and most creative games is Once Upon a Time by Atlas Games. If you check their website you will find some teaching tips, but I use it in a different way, simply because it is hard to tell a story for pre-intermediate level students - writing is easier, especially when they have dictionaries and work in pairs to make it even funnier.

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