It was a neat little list of personality adjectives. Hard-working, organised, tidy... They marched like pink elephants on parade, then sudde...

They came to the first class timidly. They looked at me, their faces enthusiastic and hopeful. They all had their textbooks open at the firs...

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...