Tomorrow, December 17th 2010, is Anti-Bullying Day and as a person who has been, in different life situations, the victim, the supporter, ...

A friend of mine, Ken Dimmick, wrote this awesome poem which I just know can be turned into an amazing lesson plan.  But I was thinking, 2 h...

Probably one of the easiest, getting-back-in-the-groove, sans materials, dogmesque lesson I can think of: Step 1 Write 2009 on the board A...

The decade of the uh-oh's is finally done. Hallelujah!! For me those ten years were made up of: A marriage... a divorce, surviving volc...

Confession: Christmas is not my favorite holiday. It's my least favorite. To go into all the reasons for that would be dull... I could s...

(A Business English/EFL/ESP:marketing lesson) After having lived, worked and taught English all over the world, I've noticed that cultur...

These days, at least over here in Europe, smart phones are about as commonplace as, er... um, desks. So let's use them to teach with... ...

The other day on Lindsay Clandfield's blog, he did a posting entitled Six Tired Examples for Teaching Grammar , including the standard, ...

What is your secret ambition? If you could go back in time, do something else or be someone else what would you do? What do you still hope ...

I was browsing around in youtube last night and came across a video from a Columbian youth. The question was so poignant I immediately knew ...

UPDATE 8Mar09 - this lesson plan now has an additional animated video which can you use to discuss process with students -especially good if...

Have you realized how poignant that old favorite, sung by Abba way back when, is? I deal for taking into class with you at the beginning of ...

The news are currently a-buzz with corporations lining up to hold out their begging bowls in the hope that something, anything will rescue t...