Lie to me – a back to school activity
 Students come to the first English lesson of the new school year expecting the inevitable: the teacher asking them about their summer holidays. Justifiably, they’re bored with it. Here’s a twist to liven up this old routine: Ask your students to get into groups of three or four. Tell them that each group member [...]
On perception of noise in the classroom
My first English teaching job was in a primary school. I still have nice memories of that time as I learnt a lot there – including the lesson from the incident that I’m about to tell you about. It happened in the spring of 1990, my first school year there. We were doing a speaking [...]