It’s the penultimate week of term. State schools are on holiday, so the students have already requested something ‘fun’ and ‘light’ for lessons this week. […]

I made this activity up in class and it worked well! Really creative, loads of interesting language, and also a good way to practice ‘used […]

Another ‘making things up as a go along’. This time in my IELTS Teens class. Topic: Environment and the natural world Context: We’d just done […]

Another one of my ‘making things up as I go along’ reflections. This time, something that actually worked! The materials from one of our in-house, […]

Wordwall is a recent find for me. I heard about it during this webinar on gamifying learning, which was quite interesting. I’ve since mentioned it […]

I don’t often win things – just like the football team I support! However, I was lucky enough to be the Onestopenglish Lesson Share winner […]

There is one thing that all teachers agree we need more of. One thing we can never have enough of and one that we seem […]

More PronPack in class today. I’m just making a quick note of a follow-up activity I did – worked well. I used ‘Stress Jigsaw’, a […]

I’ve been using PronPack a bit in class recently. I was going to review it, but I think it’s more interesting to write about how […]

I used this game at the end of class last week. It was just for fun, although I guess you could tweak it to cover […]

Hey all, quick question here, after some ideas. I just wondered – do you have any routines or activities you use to engage learners at […]

Do you want to bring some drama and creativity into class? Are you looking for new ways to motivate and engage your teen/adult learners? Are […]