Here is the end product of a lesson plan in which a group of adult learners created their own Mr Men and Little Miss characters:

The artists were: Ana, Carlos, Elena, Eva, Inés, Juana, Marián, Marta, Pilar, Silvia, Silvia and Verónica. As well as making a drawings of their character, everyone had to write a short […]

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Look! The good people at English Central recorded my webinar: ‘Using Images Creatively’:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jW3ikWbyb8o

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=856E_Z-azXk

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qUPZwGBBBII

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-JQ3aZhuJto

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MM-K8RxWB_Q

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qGGuS5BhvnM

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bdKaEZbTWTU

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the-venus-of-willendorf.pdf
The Venus of Willendorf (below) is an icon of prehistoric art. It is housed in the Museum of Natural History in Vienna. One day, a visitor to the museum asks a guide how old it is. The guide replies that it is 25 thousand years and 8 months old. The visitor is […]

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Burcu Akyol sent me some drawings from one of her classes. She asked her students to draw a man with a baby gorilla talking to a policeman in the street. Students were then asked to consider what was happening and create dialogs. This is a preparation stage for an activity from my new book (that’s […]

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Sometimes students tell me that they would like to do a revision lesson. I ask them what they would like to revise and they say, “Verbs, of course”. Then I say, “What aspect of verbs would you like to revise?” and they reply, “Oh, you know - the past, the present, the future, and things […]

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Got an email from Nick, a friend and attendee of a workshop that I gave a while back. He sent me some of his students’ sketches:

Apparently the language point was ‘put on’ and ‘put off’:

Put on weight
Put on the TV
Put up petrol prices
Put up your hand
Put up posters
Didn’t put on his clothes

Nick tells me that […]

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