Gems, titbits, puzzles, foibles, quirks, bits & pieces, quotations, snippets, odds & ends, what you will

All change! Enliven your class with this dynamic roleplay combined with a sentence gap fill on the theme of change.  

David Heathfield uses a Newari tale of faithful goats, evil stepmothers and compassionate forest demons to demonstrate collaborative storytelling.

David Heathfield uses a story from a Thai student to illustrate the technique of story mapping: learning to retell a story by listen

Teachers share their gems, titbits, puzzles, foibles, quirks, bits and pieces, quotations ... Quotes for votes: ‘Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.’ (George Bernard Shaw, Irish playwright) ...

A funny story about perspectives which you could use to initiate a discussion on how culture and expectations affect our viewpoints.

Gems, titbits, puzzles, foibles, quirks, bits & pieces, quotations, snippets, odds & ends, what you will.  

David Heathfield uses a tale from Kazakhstan to illustrate the technique of getting students to link folk tales with a moral to personal anecdotes.  Includes photocopiable materials. 

Gems, titbits, puzzles, foibles, quirks, bits and pieces, quotations, snippets, odds and ends, what you will.

Gems, titbits, puzzles, foibles, quirks, bits and pieces, quotations, snippets, odds and ends, what you will.

Word puzzle: What do all these words have in common? Assess Banana Dresser Grammar ...

Ten household truths: Have you ever noticed that the laws of household physics are every bit as real as all the other laws in the universe? Here are a few examples ...

Gems, titbits, puzzles, foibles, quirks, bits & pieces, quotations, snippets, odds & ends on the theme of raising offspring. Includes photocopiable materials. 

Written for teachers by teachers: gems, titbits, puzzles, foibles, quirks, bits and pieces, covering "Who said it?", "What is it?" and more