You’ve just realised that you may have too many teams in your Microsoft Teams account. You proceed by doing a sensible triage, putting the maybe not too important ones into the ”Hidden teams” drop-down menu. The list seems more manageable, but you’d still want more order from the chaos that is Teams. I’ve been in …
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I came across the writer David Sedaris through the podcast This American Life and immediately fell in love with his dry and sometimes absurd sense of humour. Whenever I find gems like this, I turn it into a lesson plan, cross my fingers and hope that my higher-level students will find it as hilarious as …
A couple of months back, this video started making the rounds in the teacher Twitter-sphere (resurfaced, in fact, as the clip is about five years old). It deserves all the attention. It deals with adjectives, more specifically adjectives modified by the use of ”very”. ”Very” may be the language learner’s very best friend. You learn …
Music is an easy topic to build lessons around. With the exception of one student who purportedly did not listen to any music at all(!), everyone generally has an opinion about it and enjoys listening to at least one genre. What everyone seems to be able to agree on is that music as a phenomenon …
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I’m obsessed with neat planning solutions. I’ve run through dozens of apps and a handful of paper calendars in the search for the holy grail of work organisers. In Notion, with all its customisability goodness, I struck gold. In this article, I’ll share my thoughts on what makes a good lesson planner and how I …
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