This is an alternative approach to the inevitable "what did you do on your holidays" conversation. Many first lesson activities and ideas are based on the premise that nobody knows anybody else but often the students in your classes... Continue Reading →
I'm not very up on twitterquette. I'm still not entirely certain that (a) I know what I'm doing, (b) I know what I should be doing, (c) I know what everybody else is doing on Twitter. My experiences thus far... Continue Reading →
I have no idea where this one came from.... Well I do. It's a dream fragment. The other day I woke up, went back to sleep and woke up again to remember a fragment of a dream in which I'd... Continue Reading →
This is a post aimed more at those who live in countries where the risk of wild fires / forest fires is a regular hazard. This is certainly the case where I live - wildfires are a frequent cause of... Continue Reading →
The Vortex Game. This is a game I've created that can be used with any age or level - for pretty much any purpose. It came out of a conversation with a colleague (thanks Sarah!) who was looking for an... Continue Reading →
Just a quick lesson overview rather than a full plan etc today: this is an idea for helping learners with comparisons / comparatives. Basically it starts out with the activity "Tea or Coffee", follows up with the language input stage,... Continue Reading →
Back in March the Guardian held a live Q&A chat with a panel of experts, which I mentioned on teflgeek, and they've just posted in to say that they're running another Q&A session later today (Tuesday July 12th 2011) on... Continue Reading →
