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"First writing" tips
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Writing can be one of the most tiresome endeavours of a student - can you recall your own papers, compositions, etc?
I see no reason not to teach some writing techniques to my own students. I've realised that the sooner they get the basics, the better their writing compositions are.

Tenses review - a quickie
To make my - and my students' - life easier, I've decided to make a cheat sheet for all the tenses & aspects, their uses and syntax. I'm happy to share it with you.

Let's write a poem!
Yesterday, when I was on my way to work, I was thinking about the lesson - a group of pre-int teenagers and grammar + vocabulary revision. Not necessarily exciting thing, admit it.
Maybe I'll give them a funny warm up at least, I thought - and I decided to make them write a poem, which we had never done before.

Scaredy Cat: roleplay and/or creative writing
Scaredy Cat is a project by Heather Franzen and I must say I fell in love with it the moment I saw it - in fact I'm going to buy this tiny book because it's cute, adorable and I simply want to have it on my own :) Now - it's a lovely story and let me share its sweetness with you.

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

Stories and storytelling
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.
