Happy Birthday, Funky Socks and Dragons!

It is not the happiest time of the year or the happiest time of my life so I am not really going to celebrate. Apart from this one short post here.

The blog has been on for two years now.

It has been visited by almost 7000 people on 10 000 occasions. 188 posts have been written.

It has brought me a lot of joy and I would like to believe that it has helped a few teachers of English to feel a bit more comfortable, a bit more confident and a bit happier standing in front of a bunch of kids, from Monday to Friday.

For that reason I am going to continue writing.

Here are the links to the top 10 most popular posts over those two years

1. a post on colourful semantics in EFL
2. a post on Pasha, the invisible student
3. a post on surviving your first ever lesson with VYL
4. lots of ideas on using visuals in class, YL or not (2 parts)
5. and some more ideas for the homework for pre-schoolers
6. the many uses of wordwall games in class
7. a post dedicated to a circle, my favourite shape ever and a cool craft idea
8. ideas on how to start the school year with teens
9. and a similar post but with the focus on primary
10. and, one of my favourite ones ever, on how to survive when you suddenly land on Mars

And one of the least read one, with lots of great ideas on how you can allow yourself to be a lazy teacher. You can find it here.

Happy birthday, happy teaching!

Peace to the world. Please.