At the moment, I’m in Norwich, working with a group of Chinese teachers of English. We are making a lot of use of video cameras and last week one of the trainees filmed this videotelling activity. The full lesson plan is on Lessonstream. Click here to see it. In the clip, James Thomas, my friend [...]

This clip demonstrates the videotelling principle. Here I videotell the Mr. W video to a fun group of English learners from China. After hearing about the clip, I replayed this recording of myself. That way my students were able to see their teacher’s spoken text a second time. Their task was then to make a [...]

I got off the plane from Barcelona at London Stansted. I opened up my phone, took out my Spanish SIM card and replaced it with my British one. I turned my phone back on. Beep beep! Here is the SMS that welcomed me back to the United Kingdom (click on pictures to enlarge): It says: [...]

A clip like this allows us to make use of the greatest resource of all: other people. Human beings are fascinated by other human beings and after writing a lesson plan for this video (click here to see it), I have formed a different relationship with each of the individuals in it. The lesson plan [...]