How Can You Make English Lessons More Creative? | Spontaneous TEFL Ideas & Teaching Tips - S07E08

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Previously titled “S07E08 - How Can You Make English Lessons More Creative? | Spontaneous TEFL Ideas & Teaching Tips” — renamed by the publisher on Aug 24, 2026

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Season 7, Episode 8 is packed with spontaneous teaching ideas, lesson lead-ins, online classroom routines, creative listening tasks, and the eternal TEFL struggle of being stuck indoors when the sun is shining. Gav and Em discuss how they start lessons, ways to avoid classroom monotony, using real-world materials in class, and the freedom TEFL teachers have to experiment and improvise. There’s also a brilliant live email-writing activity, an impromptu Jackie Chan listening lesson, favourite teaching websites, and a very important discussion about forks. Support the pod and fuel the tea and coffee fund at ko-fi.com/howtoenglishpodResources:Jackie Chan interview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e0IWSyc5AQQWikipedia: https://www.wikipedia.org/BBC learning: https://www.bbc.co.uk/learningenglish/Google images: https://images.google.com/https://test-english.com/Timestamps:00:00 – Intro and what’s coming up in this episode02:07 – How Gav and Em start the first five minutes of a lesson05:39 – Greeting students and avoiding classroom monotony10:17 – Being stuck inside teaching when the weather is beautiful14:03 – The creative freedom of TEFL teaching16:01 – Gav’s spontaneous live email-writing lesson21:59 – Em’s improvised Jackie Chan listening activity26:01 – Favourite websites to use during lessons29:19 – Safe searching, grammar websites, and online teaching tools32:11 – “Put a fork in me, I’m done” and outro banter

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