Teacher Nik's English Teaching & Foodie World

 Life's too short to not go for brokeeee.. Sorry, I've lapsed into song! I promised a more frequent blog and thus, a blog you shall have. Bonus points if you know the song from above :) Yes, it's the return of everyone's favourite self-proclaimed IT & Food expert- NF :) Presumably I had some kind of mental breakdown, as I left my beloved Hong Kong, to head back to the mother land (Dover to be exact) and work at a summer school for July/August. This did mean I got to be more creative with my lessons however and get back to using ICT tools. (Fear not- I will be heading back to Asia very shortly- I've already had enough spuds and gravy for one year) So, Today I'm going back to the roots of this blog and looking at a useful ICT tool for TESOL teaching, none other than 'Blooket' (thanks to fellow summer school teacher Hazza for introducing me to this tool) Here is the initial page when you first go to Blooket.com Signing up is easy - simply sign up with y...

 Buutttt did George in the Tree make us cry? Hello dear readers, I am back with another restaurant review (RR)  Now, let's address the elephant in the blog, in the last review I said my next post would be a review of the Brazilian restaurant in Coventry City Centre, and it is in fact a review of a completely different restaurant. Let this be a valuable life lesson, always expect 'crushing disappointment' and you can only be pleasantly surprised. I will get to the Brazilian restaurant in due course, however.  So on with the review. George In The Tree Beefeater  Kenilworth Road, Balsall Common, CV7 7EX  Opening times Mon-Sat 11.30am - 11pm Sun 12pm - 10.30pm Breakfast serving times Weekdays                                   6:30am - 10:30am Weekends  7am- 11am Yes, it's a Beefeater, which also means it's adjacent to a hotel, very handy if you overeat and need a nap :) Ha...

Oh hello you- I hope you enjoyed my Moira compilation last week and welcome to this weeks blog. Today I'm taking a look at Padlet. An online tool which can be used in class (pending T'internet access) and set as a (short) homework.  So what is it? In essence, it's effectively a noticeboard. You can post a topic/subject (a padlet) which your learners can then respond to. You will need to sign up for an account - you can do this using your google, Microsoft or Apple email address: Now it's important to note there is both a free and paid version of Padlet- The free version only allows you to post up to 3 Padlets- (you can delete and post new ones consistently of course) or you can pay $8 a month to be able to post unlimited Padlets- this is of course worth doing if you intend to make Padlets a regular part of your teaching. But should you? Let's  take  the Padlet adventure together and find out! Being a very poor student, I was unable to get the old moth collector out,...