Topic: General

An overview of gestures and other body language in English classes, including games and other teaching activities

Nearly 100 classroom instructions and explanations that can be accompanied by gestures, with descriptions of how teachers can use their bodies.

Using Total Physical Response (TPR) games involving movement to practise grammatical forms such as Present Continuous, prepositions and future tenses.

Teaching tips and classroom games/ activities for "seven o'clock", "nine p.m.", "sixteen hundred hours", etc.

How to use a simple set of stackable blocks to practise a wide range of different grammar, vocabulary, pronunciation, etc including personal questions, colours, numbers, there is/ there are, countable and uncountable, prepositions of position and phonics.

Teaching tips and classroom activities for helping students France/ French, Switzerland/ Swiss, etc.

How to usefully, efficiently and productively use colouring in to teach all kinds of language and skills

What to think about when planning lessons on phone calls in English, with presentation and practice classroom activities.

English teaching board games without dice etc that are more fun and better at practising language than those which need such accoutrements, and with many more possible uses.

Almost 100 ways to use a ball in EFL classes, plus 13 other kinds of objects you can use the same way if don't want to use a ball

New technologies as a stimulating and useful topic for ESP and General English classes.

Going a little and much further than talking about running, jumping and swimming.

Teaching the popular topic of sport and using that topic to practise loads of other language.

The standard way of doing a listening with many small and large variations.

Activities to teach football vocabulary so students understand English language World Cup sources such as TV commentary and news reports, and activities using the World Cup to teach language unconnected to football

Useful Classroom Language for making things in class

Interesting activities and topics about the Middle Ages for ESL classes

Useful classroom language for teachers for finishing classes

Interesting activities and topics about prehistory and ancient history for ESL classes

Activities for history projects in the ESL classroom

How you can use Christmas songs in the classroom - Putting the seasonal cheer back into grammar (and putting the grammar back into Xmas)

Putting the seasonal cheer back into grammar

How to combine Christmas with a Kindergarten/ Pre-school/ Very Young Learners English Syllabus

Ideas on miming vocab associated with Xmas

The top children's books for practising typical EFL language points, with interactive classroom activities for each picture book.