Let's forget about the past and start looking into the future! In my time teaching, I've taught the New Year's resolutions class one too many times! That's why I decided to switch it up just a notch. This year I dove into 2022 predictions about the world. I mean, the world is so unstable right… Continue reading Your year in preview
Category: Holiday classes
Your year in review
Happy New Year everybody! I hope you all had a lovely winter break and enjoyed your time off work. When everyone else is planning their resolutions and different ways of achieving them, why don't we look back at 2021 and analyse it month by month. I present you with a lesson plan for adults, levels… Continue reading Your year in review
Christmas themed B1 speaking
The stress of the exam preparation doesn't take any days off. That's why when you want to take a breather and spend some fun and quality time with your B1 students, you may want to kill two birds with one stone. Have a chat about Christmas time, while practising all parts of the PET speaking… Continue reading Christmas themed B1 speaking
Have yourself a sustainable little Christmas
It's the most wonderful time of the year once again. The time to be jolly, spend time with your loved ones, and of course, give presents. It's so wonderful that most of the time we forget about the dark side of it - increased waste production. In this Christmas oriented lesson, we look at the… Continue reading Have yourself a sustainable little Christmas
The Christmas Countdown
If you live and teach in one of the European countries, it's almost impossible to avoid Christmas-themed lessons. A year ago, when I worked at an academy in Alicante, I was asked to prepare a short Christmas video or project with some of my younger groups. With my Movers group (ages 7-9), we spent about… Continue reading The Christmas Countdown
The problem with Halloween
It is my last post of October, and even though I had fun with all my themed lessons, a few questions stood out to me. What if I don't like teaching themed classes? What if I don't like teaching Halloween? To all those questions I say - fair enough. You shouldn't teach anything that doesn't… Continue reading The problem with Halloween
Halloween Escape Room
If you want to have a fun and relaxing class, look no further. I've got something just for you! Your teenagers will love this Halloween-themed escape room style class. All you need to do is monitor the answers and make sure that your students don't get too heated in this instalment of spooky classroom activities!… Continue reading Halloween Escape Room
Halloween Comparatives and Superlatives
Grammar doesn't have to be boring! Ask your students to come dressed in their best costumes and practise comparatives and superlatives for short adjectives, using different Halloween objects and creatures. I love themed lessons. However, I don't think they should always be the same and focus on the vocabulary. That's why I've prepared a set… Continue reading Halloween Comparatives and Superlatives
Halloween-themed B2 speaking
Happy October! As an ESL teacher, you know what that means - themed lesson plans! I'm not a fan of conducting the standard History of Halloween lessons. Instead, I like to have the best of two worlds: exam preparation and Halloween. Last year I was working with the second year of the B2 Cambridge exam preparation group.… Continue reading Halloween-themed B2 speaking
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