If you need a free tool to store, organize and share your lesson plans and ideas, Wakelet is exactly the thing you are looking for:)  An excellent platform to create a bank of lesson plans, work collaboratively with others, organise multimedia content- Wakelet provides a free and unlimited alternative to Padlet, with even better options and functionalities to spice up your classroom with- you just need to try it!  The link below will take you direcly to a step-by-step webinar for new users that I prepared for IATEFL Poland-enjoy:)  https://fb.watch/6v1MAYivnX/

It has always been a challenge to choose a set book for English B HL, as the choice is overwhelming and the factors to be taken into consideration numerous. The perfect fit will be a book that is relevant and relatable, as well as interesting and of literary value- a rare find indeed, and all the adjectives used to describe it  are very subjective and depend on the students' and teachers' taste to a great extent.  So far with my HL students I have used Lord of the Flies, The Help, the Handmaid's Tale, the Giver, Of Mice and Men, Great Gatsby, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time, the Room .....Some of them were quite a success, some a bit of a disappointment for a reason-  at a point I realized I just need a change.  This year I decided to try out something more up-to-date and went for The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas. I prepared a unit planner with activities that worked well for me and my students, maybe you will find it useful, too? THUG UNIT PLANNER 1...

  This day and age it seems that public debate is a slippery slope, with little or no space for a polite exchange of valid arguments. What we are most often inundated with is a wave of hateful, loud remarks, offence and biting comments.  Therefore, the art of arguing your case, clearly and persuasively,  is one that needs to be taught as early as possible, and revisited as often as possible, both orally and in writing,  built step by step, starting with the topic sentence, followed by evidence, through argument structure up to a full-fledged essay. Is it an easy task, you may ask?  No, it is not. But it is essential to develop and polish it. How to do it, then?  Have a look at the handout below I prepared (courtesy of Andrzej Kurtyka, the author of a splendid book- 'Prove your point'), years ago for my students, and then shared with other educators during teacher training sessions.  It should lead you through a set of speaking and writing activities de...

If your students never cease to surprise you with ways and places where they 'submit' their homework, namely via email, teams chat, group post, messenager attachement and what not, there is hope for you to keep tabs on assignments and organize them the way you want- onedrive request files. How to do use them?  - create a folder in your onedrive - choose/right click for options - go for 'request files'- pliki żadań - write an invite to upload files  - generate a link - share it and enjoy all the files in one folder (remind ss to give the files their name) Step one: create a folder and rightclick to find 'request files' Step two: write something about your request Step three: generate and copy the link to share Step four: share and collect files