In my last post I wondered what would happen if we, the teachers, just "let go" from time to time and, instead of trying to contr...

I was in a spa last week. One day, my son and I took a ride in one of those old-fashioned horse-drawn carriages. I took out my camera and ai...

If you are an EFL teacher and have just started blogging, you probably have a big problem with motivation. Blogging is time-consuming and at...

My son is nine and his school year finished on Friday. To celebrate, we took him out to dinner yesterday. So there I was, sitting in that be...

- You haven't blogged for three weeks (because your blog is about teaching and you are so tired of teaching that you have nothing to say...

I already shared this slideshow on this blog once before. Unfortunately, I never bothered to write a proper blog post to follow it. Alas, I ...

I had a Susan Boyle week. I did Susan Boyle in my Intermediate class, then I had a very similar lesson in my Pre-Intermediate class, then I ...