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Adult students, let's roll! (Role-Playing Teaching: Part 13)
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I started playing RPGs when I was 15, so writing a post on why RPGs are awesome for teenagers would be an easy choice, but since games come so natural to younger learners, I want to share some aspects of RPGs that are really beneficial for adult learners of English.

7 Short and Simple Cool Down Ideas
It's the middle of winter, so if today isn't the best day to share my favourite cool downs, I don't know what is! I think warm ups are far more popular, but the exercises at the end of the lesson are equally important as they help students remember the things they've learned that day and close the lesson in a friendly, relaxed and enjoyable manner. Below you will find my favourite cool down ideas - maybe you'll find them as useful as they were for my own students.
The good thing about the ideas below is that you only need pen and paper - and that's it, enjoy!

500 Activities for the Primary Classroom - when you look for inspirations (book review)
We all know that teaching kids requires not only knowledge and patience, but also wild amounts of ingenuity and creativity - the younger the learner, the more creative the teacher must be! And since I've professionally come back to dealing with young learners and teens, the book I felt like browsing through really carefully addressed the needs of the youngest learners - especially knowing the author.

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!

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.

Bored in the classroom? Let's visit England!
I was looking for a nice book focused not only on culture itself, but using cultural topics as an element of a proper, language-oriented lesson. I used to prepare such classes by myself (with a little help of the Internet), but when at IATEFL conference I saw a book, titled Let's Visit England by Polonsky, I knew I had to buy it.

Bring some colours to your classroom (autumn lesson ideas)
I know that your favourite season is probably summer - especially with the holidays, right? Well, the break from school is over but, with rainy days coming, your work may feel like an unbearable drudgery. Luckily for us all, I have some ideas to share - and I tested all of them and must say they're guaranteed to bring some colours to your greyish classroom!

7 lifesaving websites for EFL teacher
I already made one list of my favourite websites months ago, but there are so many great things you find while websurfing that I'll probably make more of such sets.
Also, it can be easily seen that I love making lists.

Bro, do you even canva?
Robert Greene said "creativity is a combination of discipline and childlike spirit". I know, believe me, as I spent my May mini-break making various Canva projects and my head is spinning with more or less motivational quotes.

Make your own cookbook - project
With new courses approaching it may be nice to launch a long-term project with a pinch of technology, two cups of English and three tablespoons of fun.