This is a great activity for Christmas!  Why  not have your students write a letter to Santa! 

Here's a nice template.

Two options.

They can either write a letter to Santa which someone in the…

This is my favorite Christmas lesson. I've taught this lesson it seems, a zillion times. Works with all levels. I call it "Gift Giving".

It is a great way to close out lessons for the holiday break. 

Basically, it is groups of students giving each other Christmas gifts that are cut outs provided by the teacher. Not real gifts but works the same!  

Find…

As a teacher, you’re not supposed to share your personal life with your students, at least not anything beyond what they already know about life in general and what they consider to be pretty unmeaningful in the grand scheme of life (your marriage, your eating, your drinking coffee). Heck you should hide from them the fact you have bowel movements.

The same precaution should be applied to fellow teachers and…

This is a repost. We just ended an experiment with ads on the community. Now turned off permanently. Didn't work out. Enjoy surfing ad free! 

One of the most under noted things about our community EFL Classroom 2.0 is the fact it has no ads. I love this fact (and perhaps its why I now live in a city without advertisements!).

Ads, you know, those subtle…

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I'm a confirmed, addicted, "sharer". Been that way for years and I'm sure its caused it share of incredulity. Many people just don't operate on and of the same mental construct - believing as I do that knowledge is not something created nor owned. It is air and for all. But that is okay - the world is beautiful because it is made of so many who are different. There is room for all of us.



I'm…

When selecting a school to work at, select a school that has upward mobility. A school that has what you want. Some of these schools don’t have upward mobility, whatsoever. Some of them are just very structured. They’re government jobs. And you work the same position year after year, doing the same things. Many don’t even allow innovation within the classroom, so you can’t even grow beyond the old models of teaching. How does that sound? Sounds like a slow and…

We’ve reached a point in time where you can almost always avoid reinventing the wheel.

Memory games are spectacular for getting the students off your back, particularly in countries where raw human-derived memorization is considered the path to success. This is why people love talking to parrots.

Getting the students to stretch their memories is an easy task to give them.…

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I recently came across this great blog post about Six highly provocative quotes in ELT, from the 6 things blog.



I love a good aphorism and though these are all thought provoking, they somewhat lack the punch and umphapha that Nietzsche would have imagined. I guess that is par…

Yes, it is that time of year! Back to school and back to the trenches and battle to keep the light of education and learning burning.

Here are a few things that might help you as you "get back at it".

1. 50 Things To Do The First Week Of…

Here are some of the most recent important conversations on LinkedIn ELT Professionals.

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Recently, we've begun a lot of work to update the site, improve loading speed and access for members. Free or paid. 

Part of this has been content related. We add new content daily and have also updated or added many new "Premium" products which teachers can purchase to support our costs and time. We thank all those who've been pitching in. But we need members to do more ....…

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Lots of new things on the community this month. No break for us! Please see what we highly recommend below. 

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Lots of new things on the community this month. Please see what we highly recommend below. 

Missed the last newsletter - view it here. 

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See below, the latest and greatest new resources posted on the community. Hope you find them useful!

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Happy Spring! 

Here for your reference are some of the most popular discussions of recent note on ELT Professionals.

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Here is the latest 50 list - 50 Ways To Learn A Language (without a teacher). 

Great for teachers to review these with students and point them towards independent learning. 

Get all the 50 lists HERE    Download the PDF version of this list with…