Work-life balance has been a buzzword for quite some time now, and I can’t stress enough how important in the teaching profession it is not to work. If you want to be healthy, efficient, good at your job and happy at the same time, you have to learn to let go….
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Holiday Is Over, Back To Work ESL Teacher!
It’s been a while since I posted an article, created a worksheet or did anything even resembling work. Why? I needed a reboot. I love my work, the creativity of it, the relationships with my students that it brings, BUT, in order to enjoy it all and to be able…
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Vocabulary Posters – Idioms and Collocations.
I have neglected my blog in the past couple of weeks, mostly due to my duties at the school where I teach. Staff meetings, entrance exams, school leaving exams, paperwork…and at the end of the day, no energy for creativity, or even thinking. Hopefully, I will have more time in…
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Bean Boozled in ESL Classroom: A Funny Way to Warm Up, Engage And Motivate Your Students.
Who doesn’t like jelly beans? Most kids love them. Why not use that love for them in your classroom? I’m sure most of you know the naughty version of Jelly Beans- Bean Boozled. It is a game which features a spin wheel and 14 different flavours of the jelly beans….
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Online Vocabulary Activity With Pictures.
I want to share with you a fun activity which I found on the website of the Merriam-Webster dictionary. It is called Name That Thing, and that is exactly what you do. They show you a picture of an everyday object or a part of it and you have to choose…
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Business English Vocabulary Card Game | Forbidden Words
Forbidden Words is a game card activity based on Taboo. The aim of the game is to explain given words, but without those words that you would most likely use because those are taboo – that means, you can’t use them. The simplicity of this game allows for endless variations…
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28 ESL/EFL Conversation Starters to Spark Conversation
There are not enough conversation questions in the resource universe to satisfy the needs of an average EFL/ESL teacher. We need more, more! Especially, when you teach one-on-one, the search for good questions can be excruciating. I put together 28 questions which can help the conversation to get going. Some…
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Make Game Quizzes For ESL Lessons
My younger students are very competitive and playful, and I love that about them. It is great to see that they are engaged and immersed in the activity, that they are having fun; and that they don’t even realise they are learning. I am always in need of new resources,…
