Teaching Matters

As more and more classrooms are moving online, it's high time to teach your students about  Digital Citizenship. WebEnglish.se has so many resources that it may be difficult to find what suits best for your students. That is why I have collected some basic videos for different levels of students ...

WebEnglish.se has everything you need for your B1-level students (even lower and higher) to keep learning at home, while their school is closed. Here are my personal recommendations: Audiobooks. Reading is the best way of learning a language and with audiobooks the reader can listen to natural language at the ...

For a long time, I have been thinking of adding lesson materials about some countries. The ones that already exist in English Speaking Countries are mainly meant to help students to do their own research and don't lend themselves easily to classroom teaching. As we are approaching St. Patrick's Day, ...

February 14th is Valentine's Day. Traditionally, it is the day to show appreciation to your loved ones, to declare your secret crush on somebody or to propose to your bride-to-be. As 2020 is a leap year, the tradition urges ladies to propose to their beaus in order to get to ...

The impeachment trial of the US president starts today. This is only the third time in history that a sitting president of the United States is impeached, so whatever the outcome or your own standpoint, this is a historic day. This is also something specific for the American political structure ...

I thought I buried The Ghost Hunter in R.I.P. Ghost Hunter last September. However, recently an old Facebook post about my hunt for the Ghost Hunter has emerged and is being reactivated by new readers. Oddly, this happened at the same time as I had already started to transcribe this ...

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day is celebrated on the 3rd Monday in January every year. President Obama declared January “National Slavery and Human Trafficking Prevention Month” and February has traditionally been called Black History Month in the USA. WebEnglish.se has several Theme Pages to study black people's struggles to get ...

This year WebEnglish.se recommends you start your term with One Word New Year Resolutions. The social media is teeming with examples from teachers and Whole Wheat Class gives out free One Little Word New Year's Posters in TpT. There are many more New Year Activities in the new Theme Page about NewYear. ...

Advent Time is Near! WebEnglish.se presents FIVE Advent Calendars again this year. As each class is different, there is only an approximate language level for each calendar. The general idea is (in Sweden): A1.1.= yr 1-2; A1.2.= yr 3-4; A2.1.= yr 5-6; A2.2.= yr 7-8; B1= yr 9 and up. Sorry for Early Birds: ...

WebEnglish.se has updated all Christmas pages and added a new level. New items into each will still be added throughout December. Best of Christmas 1-4 has lesson plans and materials for beginner levels (A1). Best of Christmas 5-7  has lesson plans and materials for elementary levels (A2.1.). Best of Christmas ...

For 50 years the Native Americans have celebrated the Day of Mourning on the 4th Thursday of November while the other nationalities in the US celebrate Thanksgiving Day. This year, WebEnglish.se has added a new Thanksgiving Theme Page for level B1 that teaches the truth and the Native American side ...