Slam!

Slam! is an easy to prepare and fun EFL kindergarten game for speaking practice. You either cut up a sheet of mini-flash cards, or keep the sheet intact and supply one to each group of 3 students who are sitting in a circle. One student acts as ‘teacher’...

Brain breaks for very young learners

Reggie, how long have you been on the couch for? Brain breaks. There are many different types of brain breaks, however, today I want to focus on the musical ones. To me, the brain break is a short, fun activity that allows the children to relax, without there being...

A free tool for removing image backgrounds

Sometimes you have an image in a JPG format where you want to remove the (usually white) background, in order to make it transparent. You might want to do that in order to make mini flash cards, or so that you can layer the image over the top of another (and still see...

Free MiniFlash Card Template

A few weeks back, I described the process I used for creating my mini-flash card template. I thought I’d upload a copy here for anybody who was interested to use it for their classes. The numbers and dotted formatted boxes part of the template is an image...