Anka Zapart

Anka Zapart Anka is a freelance teacher and teacher trainer. She has taught all age groups and levels for more than 15+ years in Poland, the UK, Spain, Brazil and Russia. Her real passion is teaching young learners, especially early years as well as material design, maximising production and using visual Arts to develop language skills.

Competitive games in the YL classroom

The article describes a variety of ways of running games in the classroom to ensure that they are efficient, fun, useful and engaging.

‘A beautiful mess’ – the Very Young Learner teacher’s novice year

Based on feedback fro a large cohort of trainees, the article assesses what is required in the training of teachers to work with very young learners.

Teaching out of the box

Anka Zapart provides a detailed series of suggestions for combining basic English such as animals, colours and shapes with a practical, creative programme of art projects.

We want more!

Using pairwork, games and activities which children enjoy are three ways of engaging them and encouraging speaking. Letting them lead and having classroom routines are also useful.

Teaching grammar in pre-school? – Anka Zapart

MET interviews Anka Zapart, whose article 'Teaching Grammar in Pre-School?' features in the May/June 2022 (Volume 31, Issue 3) edition of Modern English Teacher.