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500 Activities for the Primary Classroom - when you look for inspirations (book review)
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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.

7 Free Online Courses in June
With warmer days we may either feel encouraged to spend days in the garden or in the park, or to spend evenings outside, enjoying slightly cooler air. I myself prefer the second option, especially that, as usually, I have so much to learn, that evenings and studying seem to be one... for ever.
Even if you're not as much into CPD as I am, you might find some of the courses interesting:

Role-Playing Teaching (Part 8 - making classes SuperBetter)
It's a really strange feeling, when you read a book in April and you realise you've just read your Book of the Year. Also, it's hard to believe I hadn't heard of Jane McGonigal before my Prince Consort picked her book during our monthly book hunt and said "You will love it". He was right, naturally.

7 Free Online Courses in May
April showers brought May flowers and indeed, there are many free online courses blooming on various platforms - and since next week I'm going to have a well-deserved May mini-break, I managed to find nice subjects to study, so that you'll have something to choose from even before May starts!

6 Useful Apps for Academic IELTS Prep
I want to present my top 6 apps that will help students practise at home and prepare for the test - links will direct you to Google Play Store where you'll be able to download the app. You may also find most of them in the Apple Store as well.

Free Online Courses in April
April showers bring... a lot of free online courses. With the weather still unpredictable, it's still a nice idea to spend windy days at home, studying and developing our teacherish skills... and not only those, as I found some courses everyone might find useful, not only teachers.

Quizizz: making tests fun (+ activity ideas)
You must have heard of Quizlet and Kahoot!, but today I want to share my favourite quiz-making application: Quizizz. Apart from a name (try remembering which z is doubled!), this tool is not only useful and easy to grasp, but also fun to use, both for teachers and students. Quizizz allows people to create and use one another’s multiple-choice quizzes, so they can be used live as a form of classroom competition, or as homework.

5 applications to boost your English
Today I want to help everyone struggling with keeping up with English by sharing my favourite applications to learn English. You may recommend them to your students, but I encourage you to try them on your own - I do.

7 Free Online Courses in March
I find March a perfect month for online learning - long, rainy days, still cold and grey just made to stay in and study. I have a ton of books to read, but I simply cannot resist a good online course, so here we are with a set of seven fresh online courses.

How to complete an online course?
For a while now I've been sharing ideas on free online courses you can take up every month - hopefully you find them inspiring at least as much as I do. One of the comments I get is that while it's easy to find a nice course and sign in, it's far more difficult to complete it. Some people say that's why paid courses are a better option as you feel the pressure on finishing something you paid for.