In this post my students will do a fun activity revising vocabulary , collocations and verb tenses. They will have to add up their results and at the end of the game, they will get ‘paper money’ to spend on a holiday trip. You will find downloadable score lists at the end of this post.…… Continue reading 🌍 A2 Holiday Challenge: Win Money & Plan Your Trip!
Hi there! In this post, I’ve dusted off a post that I placed on a blog a couple of years ago by converting several of the tongue twisters into a video. By this, not only is it far more amusing for students, but you also get an AI Santa reciting the tongue twisters. ⭐ How…… Continue reading Christmas tongue twister lesson to improve pronounciation
You know those silly moments when a radio suddenly plays the song that matches your mood? Turns out it’s not just humans — ask the eggy bunch in my fridge. 🥚📻In this short film you’ll see why we’re literally losing our minds over eggs at home — definitely not for the faint-hearted. It’s a one-minute…… Continue reading C1/C2 Five Intense Emotional Expressions for Advanced Learners
A whimsical poem to practise pronunciation and intonation This sweet and rather silly poem has long been a favourite among English-speaking children, and for good reason — it’s musical, memorable, and packed with playful sounds. But beyond the fun, I truly believe that rhymes, tongue-twisters, and poetry are powerful tools to help learners improve both…… Continue reading Cultural Corner: The Owl and the Pussycat
📚 This Lesson at a Glance This lesson explores the controversial question of whether young offenders should be punished like adults. Using an authentic video report and an adapted text, students will build key vocabulary related to youth crime, discuss the root causes and consequences of rising violence among teenagers, and practise their opinion-writing skills.…… Continue reading B2 Should Young Offenders Be Punished Like Adults?
Hi there! As I have just completed a 60-hour course on podcasts, I couldn’t keep myself from setting up a video. Yep! You don’t have to tell me that the BBC will NOT hire me :D, because I know. But as a matter of fact, creating podcasts is something that I’ve been wanting to explore…… Continue reading B2 Podcast Space and the Universe
European cities have lit up their Christmas lights, and everybody is getting into the Christmas spirit, hustling and bustling around, meeting up and doing Xmas shopping. As a teacher, I obviously feel enthusiastic about finding something that we can talk about in our classes, but at the same time, I can’t bring myself to ignore…… Continue reading B2 Speaking about An Inclusive Christmas Celebration
You may be wondering why I asked AI to generate an image of Putin and Trump embracing each other. Well, actually, it is because they share the same horoscope signs as my husband and I, and apparently, they are highly compatible signs in terms of having a healthy relationship. So….. you never know! Maybe the…… Continue reading B2 Zodiac Signs of ‘Bad Guys’to learn personality adjectives & describe your personality
If you want to have some fun during these last classes and happen to be dealing with the topic of Education and your groups need to revise for verb tenses and some work on reported speech, this is for you. I’ve just set up an escape room (for the first time because I’m doing a…… Continue reading B1-B2 Escape Room Virus at Cruncham Hall
Now we’re approaching Christmas, people become aware of how important it is to share good times with their loved ones – oh! Now I’m getting a bit soppy :D….(leave it Serena, you’re not inspired today…) Ok, let me start again. In this post, you have a short video with questions related to friendship, which I…… Continue reading B1-B2 Speaking about friendship
