With all the buzz about At World’s End, pirates offer a ton of great game ideas. Here are a couple you could use with the Left & Right song… A cross between the Mr Bump game and Shiver me timbers game, do the Captain Jack Sparrow Treasure Chase. One kid dresses up as Jack Sparrow…

UPDATE:  These quizzes have all now been added as “games” to the Teacher’s Set software e.g. check out the Fruit Market or I’m thirsty lessons!   Just spent the morning working through my email mountain ( it’s amazing how 2 days without net access builds up!). One of the emails was about the mp3 files of…

Whenever I do workshops every person in the room is involved. The reason is that however much you read about a game or song, or even watch videos, it’s not until you try it as a student that you actually see why it works. For example when I first started on the JET programme everyone…

Hope you had a nice weekend! Last term we had a request for ideas for teaching “school subjects” ( math(s), English, PE, science etc.). Although I explained that it’s not one of the themes I personally like, as it’s usually not kids but teachers who make the request, I’m glad to say that Atley Jonas…

And to the final post in this series, what to do in a first lesson when you don’t speak your students’ language. I know whenever I do a class in a new country for the first time it can be terrifying. You walk in there, nobody speaks any languages you understand ( because if they…

The number one top idea for a first Junior High School lesson is without doubt the “What’s your name?” lesson. As I wrote in the “6th graders” article, even the hardest nosed too-cool-for-school 6th graders turn back into little angels in the first year of Junior High. And after a week full of entrance ceremonies…