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Just a few words: try this for your lectures and you will not need any of our words.  Go to mysimpleshow and visualise your lection! We’ve already done it: 1) https://videos.mysimpleshow.com/qciX7pix5F 2)https://videos.mysimpleshow.com/0xda0QvHT4

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TESTS THAT YOU WON’T SEE AT SCHOOL

When I was a pupil, I liked grammar tests, but actually a few children like them because they are difficult and boring. Now I am a teacher and I have made tests myself. What is more, I have to check them and put bad marks (unfortunately, it happens so). We present you tests that you will never see at school. This site could be a great help for teachers at schools because they do not have to check anything. If I had had such tests as a pupil, I would have liked them even more.

1) English Test Online https://www.english-test-online.com/en-US/home

2) Testmoz https://testmoz.com/

3) Easy Test Maker https://easytestmaker.com/

4) Flubaroo http://www.flubaroo.com/

5) Quizizz https://quizizz.com/

PST! You can check the results even with the help of your phone.

And some of our tests (just for fun)

https://testmoz.com/1932302

https://testmoz.com/1894028

Be busy ;)

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“WARMING UP” TIPS

Our kids like games and hate speaking English early in the morning. And in that case, a good warming-up activity is a key thing of a successful lesson.

One our students is really into searching, exploring and solving, he likes puzzles and riddles. He is a bit lazy and he doesn’t seem to like language classes at all (especially when I make him speak).

Once I decided to give him somewhat like an “easy treatment”. We didn’t start our lesson with twisters or any other speaking activity, instead, we gave the boy a word search. He was so excited! He started looking for the words, he was eager to find them and afterward he read them happily without mistakes.

So, thanks to one of our professors, we discovered the world of “busyteaching”, where you can make your own word search or a scramble, exchange worksheets with other teachers and discuss your work with colleagues from all over the world.

Here are some of our “masterpieces”:

So, you see, it’s rather easy and useful. You will spend just a couple of minutes to prepare a wonderful “Warm Up” for your lesson. Just try. Your kids will like it. 

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Some teacher’s reflections

I knew that being a teacher is hard but when I became a teacher, I realized it. Every day is like dancing on waves: you may reach the top and feel complete inspiration. You may fall down and understand that it’s not your cup of tea, you shouldn’t be here. Every pupils’ success and fail is your own success and fail. That is why teaching is not for everybody – such emotional swing is sometimes unbearable. But there is something that is more valuable, that can compensate “dead” nerve cells. When you come to the lesson and see that at least one child is happy to see you, he or she absorbs every your word and looks at you with shining eyes, you understand that it is your cup of tea, you should be here and you return here over and over again to feel every pupils’ success and fail.