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My Thai teen students came up with this funny forfeit, where the loser had to stand up and do a chicken dance, wiggling their ass and flapping their elbows like wings. All the kids sang some chicken song in Thai, which I've never heard before - but they all knew. It seemed like light-hearted fun, ra...

So you think you know The Simpsons? Give my Homer Simpson quiz a try (20 questions) It's here: www.grammarmancomic.com/homer.html I made it to use with higher level teen students - to have fun guessing missing words from context ... but I bet there are a few teachers out there who love watching The ...

Dear teachers,

I've made a card game for students to practice all kinds of grammar. It's free to download and print.

Get it here: www.grammarmancomic.com/circuits.html

Cheers!

Brian

Do you have access to an ICT suite or CALL room? I think riddles are a really fun way to get students enthusiastic about studying English ... so I've added 12 riddles to my website, here: http://www.grammarmancomic.com/riddles.html Some of the riddles aren't easy, but the answers are provided - and ...

Wow - what a brilliant idea! I think with some careful preparation it would be a real winner. I think students would really enjoy it. You could give them shopping lists too - like a scavenger hunt. They've got to get a blue t-shirt in medium size, change some currency at the bank, drop off a suit at...

I forgot to mention that there's a quiz for the students' comics, so that's another way of using the comics for a reading activity. You can print the quiz off before class. Students can work in pairs - there are 20 questions, and 2 answers can be found in each comic. I tried this with my class and t...

How do you use a song for a running dictation? Do you mean you have the song lyrics pinned to a wall and the students run back and forth relaying the words to a partner? With my Pre-int and Int classes, I've recently used 'Soak Up the Sun' (Sheryl Crow) and 'Angels' (Robbie Williams) for song activi...

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I've just ordered that book. Our head of English agreed to buy it for the centre if I'm willing to give a workshop on using comics in the classroom.

Can't wait to read it.

Brian

Hi Teachers, Do your students enjoy comics? I've just added 10 comics to my website. They were all made by students. Here they are: www.grammarmancomic.com/sscom.html#third This collection could be used as a fun reading activity. If you use it, could you encourage your students to leave a feedback c...

Hi Teachers, Do your students enjoy comics? I've just added 10 comics to my website. They were all made by students. Here they are: www.grammarmancomic.com/sscom.html#third This collection could be used as a fun reading activity. If you use it, could you encourage your students to leave a feedback c...

I emailed the editor, Helena Gomm, three or four times last year. She wrote a personal email response each time - and usually within a day of me emailing her.

Brian

Hi Teachers, Do your students enjoy comics? I've just added 10 comics to my website. They were all made by students. Here they are: www.grammarmancomic.com/sscom.html#third This collection could be used as a fun reading activity. If you use it, could you encourage your students to leave a feedback c...

Hi Canibal Clown If you want to do a comic strip project with your students, try my webquest. It's got teaching notes you can print off: www.grammarmancomic.com/wquestmenu.html And here are some examples of comics students have already made: www.grammarmancomic.com/sscom.html I've run this project w...

Ok - the past simple one is ready!

It's here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aCEUz763Rz4

I think I might do ones with present perfect or 'going to' also. Or maybe mixed tenses.

Hope your students like them,

Brian

Thanks, Lorikeet You're right - as a first attempt, I have to confess that this is a bit hit and miss. The main idea behind it is that there's a wealth of free (if illegal) material online, where humour and story is communicated purely visually (Mr. Bean is another classic example). I'm imagining th...