High quality Microsoft PowerPoint, Excel and Word templates for English teachers

by David | Templates, Tools

  Today, I want to share with you a website (Tekhnologic) that has a large collection of very high quality Microsoft PowerPoint, Word and Excel templates. They were designed by an English teacher for English teachers. While many of these templates are more...

Using fake money in the EFL and ESL classroom

by David | Games, Templates, Tools

  Kids love using realia. Recently, I was in Taipei and found some ‘realistic’ (as much as it can legally be) fake money. I wanted to buy it, however, was unsure of the legality of traveling with fake money into another country. (I know, you see fake...

How to safely watch YouTube videos without ads and distractions

by David | Tips, Tools

  Last week I talked about using an ad-blocker to make web pages and YouTube videos a better experience in the classroom. Today I want to share another tool for making YouTube videos a safer, and more pleasurable viewing experience. ViewPure is a tool for...

Three (free) fonts every English teacher should have

by David | Templates, Tips, Tools

  Here are three fonts that every teacher of young learners should have: KG Dots Primary KG Dots Lined KG Dots No Space You can download them here. (Don’t forget though, most children don’t like tracing endless lines of letters or words.) All of the...

Top Tip: Use an ad-blocker

by David | Tips, Tools

  One of the useful about cover teaching, is that you get to see how different centres handle the same situation. You get to see how some ideas work really well, and other ways of doing things, don’t work so well. It’s kind of like teaching, in the...

Iconfinder: Review + Promo Coupon Code

by David | Templates, Tips, Tools

  At the moment I’m working on making mini-flash cards for my EFL Kindergarten course. (You can download my free kindergarten mini-flash card template.) The way most language schools make their mini-flash cards is they download black and white images from...