UPDATE:  The Spain workshop has now finished – thank you to everyone who joined us! I am absolutely shattered! In the last 18 months I’ve been to Shanghai, Amsterdam, Auckland, Bratislava, Singapore, Vienna, Perth, Milan, Tokyo, Bangkok, Kiev, Moscow & London…. Phew. So we’re just two weeks away from the very last European workshop of…

It’s always amazing to see which games and ideas becomes hits and the ones that don’t.  I’d have never picked these as such winners, but Hugo’s Origami Games have become one of the biggest hits of the year! So he’s just made up some more for the Happy Halloween lesson,   What do you want…

Whilst we can all guess what parents want from our lessons,  what we *think* they want (or what they *say* they want) is often very different from what they actually really feel they want from you. Hence all the stress and conflicts. So if you can find a way to find out what parents (or…

This is a memory game that is really useful when you want kids to remember all, not just some, of the vocab from today’s lesson! 1.  Do today’s lesson as usual with the song. 2.  Now hold up the pack of  today’s flashcards. 3. Show each card in turn and the kids have to say…

One question I often get asked is…. Should I teach just words or full sentences? In the beginning I used to just teach words. My thinking was that no real English kid would ever say “My name is ….  ” to the question. They’d just say their name! So I taught lots and lots of…