It's Christmas time!

Christmas is just around the corner! No matter what religion or place in the world you live, Christmas is a celebration all children and teenagers love and cannot be ignored. This is a lesson plan I have produced. LEVEL: pre-intermediate / intermediate OBJECTIVES: VOCABULARY: revise Christmas vocabulary. GRAMMAR:   practice past simple and past continuous...

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Halloween Teaching Ideas and Resources

 The spooky, scary Halloween festival is just round the corner! These are some activities and ideas which came to my mind after reading The English Raven Halloween lesson materials design challenge. Are you ready to invite your students to plan your school Halloween party?                          Open publication - Free publishing - More halloween Activity D2 What activities would you like to organize and participate in at the school Halloween party? Halloween Recipe...

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Verbling - Let's practice English with native speakers in real time

The Internet has revolutionised not only the way people communicate but also the way we learn foreign languages such as English.Gone are those days when learning how to speak this language in a non-speaking country was quite challenging. The only contact we had with English was through music, books or our teachers. There were like twenty-five, thirty students in my class so...

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BAAM GAME

Games are a great way to learn and motivate our students. I knew about this one just some weeks ago when I was looking for a cinema game on the internet to finish my didactic unit on Films and Passive Voice. I could not find the game but David Deubelbeiss from ESL Classroom 2.0 gave me the clue to create my own one. Furthermore, you can use the template and adapt it to any vocabulary, conversation topic or grammar point you can imagine. If you like the idea, you can download the templates or other teachers' BAAM games...

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