I recently responded to a blog challenge by a video recording of myself - you can see it by clicking here. Most EFL teachers are probably aware of the activity where students are asked to say some things about themselves, and the others are to guess if they're true or false. I suggested taking this a step further and have the students bring video ...

With the help of José Alberto of IES Los Tarahales, I've come up with this PowerPoint presentation and worksheet which will help initiate students into the world of cartoon art. There are four exercises, the first of which guides the student in making a character out of a stick figure in four steps. In the worksheet, the student is expected to ...

The colours most widely known as the primary colours are red, green and blue. These are used, for example, in CRT displays, to make a wide range of other colours. In pigments and dye mixing, such as printing, however, the primary colours used are cyan, magenta and yellow. Mixing any two primary colours gives you a secondary colour: cyan + magenta ...

Mathematicians are artists and artists sometimes need to be mathematicians, too! Here, we present (my thanks goes to the cooperation of José Alberto of IES Los Tarahales, who did most of the work, really) some common basic expressions. The file is, as usual, available in Scribd and SlideShare. How can you use it? One way is to cut them up along ...

Further to the post on how to draw a face, we now learn how to draw basic facial expressions, inspired by the styles of cartoonists. First, watch the presentation, then practise on the worksheet. As usual, you can download these from Slideshare (.ppsx) or Scribd: PowerPoint (.pps) and worksheet. Faces: Drawing Basic Expressions View More ...

A picture paints a thousand words, a good picture, that is. I don't know if this presentation will be judged as good, but it contains a fair number of wonderful pictures to illustrate the world of textures and patterns. Be warned: this PowerPoint presentation is rather big (21 MB), but I hope you will agree that it's worth it. As usual, the ...

This presentation attempts to summarise the basic points of proportions of our body parts, especially with regards to the head. It also includes a tutorial on how to draw a face. My gratitude goes to José Alberto of IES Tarahales for sharing his expertise on the tutorial, without which  the presentation would have been lacking a vital part. The ...

If I had to define myself using only 3 adjectives, I would choose these: Creative Headstrong Resourceful Given the economic situation at my school, I found myself having to be resourceful a lot. While I think this may be a common trait amongst teachers, I was wondering how resourceful I really was in comparison to everyone ...

I wrote this lesson with a friend of mine when we were going to school to get our certifications. While we were learning about the lesson plan writing process, a lot of time was spent discussing the “Initiation” of a lesson, or rather, what were you as a teacher going to do to get your students interested in learning for the period? What was ...

My husband is an idea man. He is absolutely amazing at coming up with ideas. You give him a topic, he’s got an idea for it. The only problem is, he doesn’t want to carry it out. “Sounds like a lot of work,” he’ll say. So this is how our marriage goes: “Dearest husband, we haven’t seen our friends in a while. What can we do about ...