Ever since the Team Taught Pizza sold out last year, I’ve had teachers wanting to get their hands on a copy. But not content with merely revising the TTP, this time AJET have added in whole new sections on Team Teaching, Learning Theory, Instructional Planning and Elementary Schools. Hence the rename of the book to…

I found a nice little site with games for teachers of French. One of the ideas that I liked was the “The Queen of England never…” game…. 1) You write the phrase on the board. 2) Kids race to the front and take turns to continue the sentence in as many ways possible. Examples they…

Hearing the GE songs is one thing, actually seeing the how the gestures and everything works in real life is something else! So I’ve just put up 3 videos of large classes singing three of the songs: Left & Right, What time is it, Mr Wolf? & the Thank You song. For all of the…

Another tip for yesterday’s “What do you want to do?” song is that it’s very easy to change into “What do you want to be?”, which can otherwise be a bit of a mouthful to teach in one go. From a motivation/careers education perspective, remember it’s not just English that we teach, “I am a…

“I want” can be a popular request from students, but when teaching it there are a couple of important points to keep in mind. First of all, depending on the students’ native language “I want” can sometimes have two very different meanings depending on what follows it. For example in Japanese “I want something” is…

Well I actually got through most of my emails quicker than expected, so can bring you what I did have planned for this weekend, the brand new “I like vegetables” song. It’s really simple, and I’ve added in some new vegetable picture cards. It will be to buy on one of the future CDs but…