Wanna know why I bought a timer for classroom use recently and how it has helped me? I got it for a specific reason, and it has worked splendidly, as I will explain to you. But then it started to benefit me in other areas that I hadn’t even thought
What is kinesthetic learning, you ask? It means learning through movement, and it involves physically doing, touching, and interacting with the material. It’s an active learning strategy that works really well in engaging students and it helps them retain new knowledge a lot better than just sitting and doing worksheets
Wonder how speaking games for ESL can possibly help you? Hear me out! Do you have a group of students or even just one that is reluctant to talk? Or do your students just not want to practice a grammar point in action? Then you need to make a game
Wanna know some cool Grandparents Day celebration ideas for your language lessons? Then stick around! Just like Mother’s Day and Father’s Day, Grandparents’ Day 2025 is an excellent opportunity for your students to practice their language skills, because the topic is very familiar to them. I love taking these days
Are you looking for some listening strategies to teach your students so that they will become better listeners? Then you’re in the right place! I’ve been using these strategies with my students for a while now and they always yield great results. When students are equipped with the strategies to
Wanna know how to use the game of bingo for students in your classroom? There’s just so many ways! From use for vocabulary practice to numbers revision to icebreaker purposes, bingo can be used in various manners. And each way ensures that students are connecting dots in their mind, and
Wanna know why I think reading strategies for comprehension are essential tools to have for any student? Then keep reading! Teaching your students effective reading strategies for comprehension will help them attack any written text they come across now and in the future and they will know what to look
Are you looking for some fun dice ideas to do with your students? You’re in the right place! Wanna know what is one of my favorite things to engage my students? It’s dice! There are so many things you can do with dice and they are so easy yet so
Did you know that flashcards games are a thing? I did not, but now I’m obsessed! The other day I told my team about a fun activity I did with flashcards that I bought – which I will spend a post as well some other time – and then other
Do you want to know how these best quiz websites can help you increase engagement in your classroom in the best way possible? Let me tell you all about it! Because you really can make formative assessment super fun yet also educational, without telling students that they are in fact
Wanna know what some fun games for grammar are? I’ve got all the juice! I love using games in my lessons, and not only because it makes my students so happy. It is my belief that having students interact with the grammar point through play really helps them connect with
Are you looking for some fun International Women’s Day activities ideas to do with your students? Then I’ve got just the stuff for you. Below I will tell you three fun activities that I’ve got planned for my students. And I will also tell you what other teachers are doing
Want to know how a vocab choice board can help you in the classroom? I’ll tell you right away! Because it helps engage students, because it’s a print and go activity, and because you can differentiate teaching. In addition, research shows that students need to feel autonomy, competence and relatedness
Want to know why it’s fun to get students to do drawing for writing and speaking purposes? I’ll tell you! Because drawing is fun. Students will enjoy it if you ask them to do a drawing of something. It helps them use their imagination while also asking them to move,
Wanna know why Would You Rather game cards can really help your students to start talking if they are reluctant to? I will tell you right now! Because these are fun topics to talk about, and they are easy. Those are the two ingredients you need to get a student
Wanna know how to make the teaching of grammar a lot more fun than it is right now for both you and your students? Then you’re in the right place! I have found out that I have to do a certain thing to make grammar rules stick a lot better
Need some journal writing topics you could give to students to help them practice their writing? I’ve got all sorts of fun ideas for you! If you want to get students to write for you you must give them interesting topics or generate prompts for them in a fun way.
Do you want to know the strategies for learning vocabulary that will actually yield results for your students? Then definitely keep reading! Through trial and error, I figured out what really works for retaining the meaning of the new words that people learn in a new language. And I can
Would you like to know how speed dating questions for students can really help them practice the target language? I will tell you all about it! Speed dating is such a fun activity for collaborative learning, as well as just plain practice of speaking fluency. It may be awkward at
Wanna know about a cool tool to do writing for ESL students? It’s flip books! I think it’s important for students to practice writing as a whole instead of just the components of language like grammar and vocabulary. Writing is a communicative skill and this is what we use language
