Jamie Keddie's new site

LessonStream is Jamie Keddie's new site and an improvement on his highly popular TEFLclips. It's much easier to find things - lesson plans are listed by age, level and topic.

A great site with good ideas and a useful source for interesting, short video material to use in class.

Want to make fun worksheets?

Teacher's Pet is free software you can download to make fun worksheets: crossword puzzles, word searches, gap-fills etc. At the moment it's only available for Windows but the creators say it will soon be ready for Mac.

A tool for helping students to create more complex sentences

This is another blog post from Nik Peachy, well worth the read and with clear ideas about how to use it in class.

What kind of teacher are you?

A fun quiz that tells you which animal(s) you are and the type of activities you'll enjoy using in class! The quiz was inspired by Howard Gardner's theory of multiple intelligences which suggests that different people learn and do things in very different ways.


You can do this quiz either on facebook or on the TeachingEnglish website (where you don't need to log in to facebook),

Life not sweet enough? The answer: a lesson plan on chocolate mousse

Here's the lesson plan for upper-immediate upwards and featuring a video by Nigella Lawson..

Thanks to Jon Brown for this one. Enjoy!

words and pictures

Storybird is for kids (of all ages), there are some magnificent efforts, individual and collaborative. And then there´s this rather rubbish example.

It looks great, is fun, free and easy to do.

Plus! there´s a January Challenge to enter. Win a prize. ave a butcher´s.

it´s sticky!

register free		sticky4U click on image or here	and here's a restricted example no sticky4U