Once in a while I read something and I find myself thinking, ''Now, why didn't I think of that?''. Well, Richard Gresswell had such an idea. He started a blog, called it ELTBITES, and challenged us: ''Describe an activity that requires no more than the teacher, students, and possibly making use of the board, pens, and paper. Describe the activity ...

As visitors of this blog know, I regularly create games using various sites and software as I firmly believe we need to make education fun, and games are fun to most people, especially the younger ones. I'm pleased to tell you that there is yet another site giving you the opportunity to create and play games for free. Zondle is still at the beta ...

Regular readers among you will have noticed that I use Purpose Games a lot, and, no, in case you're wondering, I don't earn anything from them. I use them because the tagging games are relatively easy to create, they're free, I haven't found any better, and they suit my purpose (no pun intended) just fine. If you're having students play the games ...

Here's another game on countries and nationalities. The clue gives you the nationality and you'll have to find the country on the map. You may also like these other games on countries: Countries and Nationalities Arcade Game The Best Countries Flags of the World Capitals of the World Find these Cities

If you had a choice of a country to live in, where would you choose? What would your criteria be? Newsweek recently compiled a list of the best countries in the world based on health, economy, politics and the quality of life. The project took them several months to complete, but their results are now available. Click on the image below to browse ...

Need some novel way to enliven your class? The traditional way of practising dialogue is to have students work in pairs (or groups), prepare their dialogues, then role-play them, maybe in front of the classroom. Instead of doing that, why don't you get them to prepare a comic strip first (after working on expressions, vocabulary, etc., of course). ...

Try to identify all these flags in this point-and-click game. Make sure to try these other games, too: Capitals of the WorldCountries and Nationalities For more, browse under category 'geography' in the GAMES AND QUIZZES section.

This is just a quick game to help you familiarise/remember the terminology used to describe circles/circumferences.

I set this game up for it to be used to demonstrate that games such as these are useful methods for teaching something you have no idea of. In this case, it's a point-and-click game on parts of the face, and the language I have chosen is Indonesian. Try it! If you're looking for parts of the face/body in English look ...

Continuing the geometry series, here's something to test if you know, for example, the difference between a hexagon and a heptagon, or a parallelogram and a rectangle... Please do register over at Purpose Games - it costs nothing - and post a comment here so I know who to look for!