My First Day At School – lesson plan
This is actually more an idea at the moment. Doing my best to jazz up a lesson on the UK education system with my evening students I found an interesting video. It’s a stop motion film of chalk writing...
View ArticleTalking Turkeys – lesson idea
I love Benjamin Zephaniah, or rather his poetry =) There is a great web page that the BBC have with lots of poets performing their own poetry. On the page there are links to pop ups of each poem’s...
View ArticleMaking dreams touchable
On 15 February I was at the British Council, Spring Gardens for a seminar given by Jeremy Harmer on using poetry and music for language teaching. This comes off the back of a show he has done with...
View ArticleMy favourite poetic YouTube clips
Inspired by seeing the Jeremy Harmer and Steve Bingham Touchable Dreams show on Tuesday, here are a few of my fave poetry videos that I have found on YouTube. Jamie Keddie has a neat lesson plan to go...
View ArticleLanguage Show 2012 – motivate with imagination
Next week Friday 19 to Sunday 21 October it’s the Language Show. It’s essentially a fair with a whole paraphernalia of stalls, publishers, course providers and job possibilities, not just for the EFL...
View ArticleThe Cat in Me
Gazing out as snowflakes continue to fall The child in me sees the icing on the cake where the lawn used to be Wants my footprints to be first on the path My snowman to be the first one who comes to...
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