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This game, Guess Who’s Speaking, I designed using the Speech Archives and stock photos. It could be a good listening activity for students (it provides repetition) and also a way to discuss stereotypes. Basically, you first guess who might be speaking (these aren’t the real...
I enjoy creating games that make life easier for teachers to teach English and which students enjoy playing and learning. I’ve created some nice ones over the years – BAAM! / Top 5 / Transl8it to name just a few of these. All available for...
I highly recommend these series of videos. Not just as an anthropologist and a teacher interested in language but as a human being who understands the importance of preserving cultural/ethnic diversity, our cultural genome. I presently live in Guatemala and this episode makes a great...
May 1st has come and gone but how many of us teachers really challenged our students to learn about the place and importance of “the working class” in our teaching? How many of us challenged students to think about how we get the things we...
As a teacher of language, I love thinking about language. This weekend I made a few quizzes which I’ll be modifying over the next month. Making them more interactive and also with video. However, I chanced upon this video of many languages and readings of...
The “Top” games series continues! Today, in celebration of the forthcoming Earth Day, the top 5 games that focus on global/world issues. Global Issues are something that students really get interested in. Very motivating for language learning and it brings the learning focus into the...
** Not your ordinary, endless list – just what’s number 1. Get the full eBook 6 Billion Others 6 Billion Others is a video series of interviews with real people. All translated impeccably. They really teach us, through humans telling their own stories about fear,...
** Not your ordinary endless list – just what’s number 1. Just the BEST. HOME (with subtitles) I’ve been spending some time zooming through Japan’s country/city side this week. A fascinating blend of nature and man and it got me thinking about this gorgeous video....
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