B's Life with English

Here are two quick ways how to help your students get the meaning of an unknown word provided they have a personal PC. I have mentioned ...

This school year I am determined to think more carefully about the ways how I teach vocabulary to my students, as this is one of their weake...

Today I attended ELT conference Motivating and Inspiring Teenage Classroom organised by the Oxford University Press and Dace Miska ...

Everyone knows that a picture is worth a thousand words, a phrase attributed to Napoleon Bonaparte although other sources say it has origi...

Image by OLD SKOOL Cora A few days ago I did an activity with my students which has been a little disregarded lately - the webquest. I...

Richard Gresswell, the @inglishteacher, has invited the teachers to share their bite-size lesson activities . The activity should be don...

I have prepared this post with regard to the teacher training session when I am going to consult the teachers on creating online vocabulary ...

This may sound flimsy to a native speaker but there are words in English which do not stick around no matter how hard you try memorizing the...

Since I first came across the website They draw and cook , I have often visited it and always found new and awesome picture recipes drawn by...

I had to find an attractive way to present city vocabulary to my younger students and I remembered bubbl which I had used a while ago, th...

Mini-books are popular not only among younger schoolchildren but they are also fun for older kids. Even adults make scrapbooks or family alb...

I came across a truly fascinating site called Save The Words supported by Oxford Dictionaries (which is not new at all, as I found out late...

Recently I discovered this amazing translation technology Lingro which the creators call a dictionary. At first glance it does not look...

I just found an amazing and extremely practical tool for making online activities, exercises, quizzes, puzzles etc called KUBBU - a strange...