Sites like www.savevid.com allow users to download or ‘capture’ video clips so that they can be stored on memory sticks or computer hard drives. For any teacher that wants to use online video in the classroom, this is an appealing option. Incentives to download a YouTube video include the following:

The clip may be removed from […]

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Had a fun weekend in Zagreb last weekend. As promised, here are the links to the activities we looked at together:
Grammar Drawings

Mexican doodles
Passive flashcards (full lesson plan to onto teflclips.com soon). Handout here: passive-noun-phrases.pdf

Grammar to draw: Noun phrases; Sentences or structures from the course book (third conditionals, for example); Question forms; Prepositional phrases; etc
Ways […]

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Eylem, a Turkish teacher friend of mine is looking for help:

“We have started a Comenius project: Life Beyond the Borders: Building Bridges of Friendship. We are partners from Turkey, Portugal, Trinidad, Bulgaria, Italy, Romania and UK. We want to enrich our partnership with the contribution of schools from other countries.
Students aged between 6 and 12 will be involved […]

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Just tweeted: http://twitter.com/cheimi10/status/6572938964

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A Pecha Kucha is a short presentation that lasts exactly 6 minutes and 40 seconds. Why 6 minutes and 40 seconds?

Well, the presentation has to consist of 20 power point slides
Each slide is displayed for exactly 20 seconds (the presenter has no control over when the slides change)
20 images x 20 seconds = 6 minutes […]

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There is a new craze happening on Twitter. It’s called ‘Tweeting what you’re Eating’. Everyone is at it. A couple of nights ago, for example, Scott Thornbury shared this with us:
@thornburyscott Home again, and homely food: butifarra amb moniatos:

A few days before that, Gavin Dudeney was kind enough to offer us his […]

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