Marisa Constantinides – TEFL Matters

…… A few days ago, during the International House DOS conference, the talks were made available online and there was a somewhat heated discussion about Hugh Dellar’s presentation which came under the title of “The Curse of Creativity” * You can watch the whole presentation if you follow this* link. The talk lasts for about [...]

  I have always loved the scene where Bridget Jones comes up with her famous 33 New Year’s Resolutions. What a great scene that was and I can’t remember how many nice lessons, by the way,  I have watched with trainees using this clip to teach this or that, sometimes the future, sometimes just to [...]

I am a big time fan of Spike Milligan, who has nothing whatsoever to do with foreign language teaching or foreign language teacher education but who has given me hours of great delight and, at times, inspiration for materials or activity design. In 1985, he brought out a book called “Further Transports of Delight” with [...]

You all know the great board game of Trivial Pursuit . I just love this game and have had lots of fun playing with friends, although, it must be admitted that the cultural bias of many of the questions makes it a bit more difficult if you are playing in a language  other than your [...]

There is a specific activity I often use in creative thinking skills workshops which works wonderfully well. I learnt it from T.Richards, during a lecture in Athens some years ago (pls see note at end). It’s called the “Yes, and…” activity In this activity, one person, or the teacher even, begins by positing something, anything. [...]