This was from a session by Tom Spain on homework. The site has ready-made gap-fill activities for songs. Why run the risk of having your musical taste scrutinized and found wanting by your students? Show them once in class how it works and then let them choose what they do at home.
2. Class Dojo
Kind of an online sticker chart for primary and perhaps junior groups. Pluses: 1) cute avatars 2) class summary possible 3) can turn off negative 'black mark' option 4) can introduce your own criteria e.g 'speaking English'. Saw this in a talk by Graham Stanley. Always slightly uneasy about 'motivating' learners this way but reckon it probably has its place if it's not overplayed.
3. Film English
Lots of lesson plans based around short films. Kieran Donaghy, who gave his talk at the Council on Friday as well as the TESOL conference yesterday, said his ideal film length for a class is 2 minutes!
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