I thought I was the last person on Earth that wasn’t tweeting so I decided to sign up. Now I keep asking people if they’re on Twitter and they look at me with confused eyes and say, “What’s that?” Anyway, you can see my twitter messages on the right hand side of the screen - […]

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Preparation
The starting point for this lesson plan was to think of a good number of do or make collocations. My students’ notebooks were helpful for this task. Here is what I found:

Do 100 mph
Do a bungee jump
Make a cup of coffee
Make a face
Make a noise
Make a phone call
Do a strip tease
Make a wish
Do […]

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On the way back from the Andalucian capital, my friend Daniel Barber (that’s Barber of of Cádiz, not Seville) informed me that the university building that the conference took place in used to be a cigarette factory (la Real Fábrica de Tabacos).
So I found this 1915 painting by local artist Gonzalo Bilbao Martínez and it […]

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One of the title words on the book cover below has been covered up. Can you work out what the word is?

Here is an excerpt from the synopsis:
What is Health _ _ _ _ _ _ _ about?
Health _ _ _ _ _ _ _ is an innovative new book about lifestyle, disease risks, diseases […]

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You might recall I won a prize for a Christmas card design when I was eight years old (see here). Well I won another prize last Wednesday night and this time I didn’t cheat!

It was the British Council Innovation Awards (the ELTons) and one of the three UK prizes went to TEFLclips. I’ve written a […]

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Walking, talking dictionaries is the title of an article I wrote for this month’s Onestopenglish. You can read it here. Also, for some strange reason, they wanted to interview me and you can see the result here. In the interview, they asked me what advice I would give to new teachers that would like to […]

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