Get sts to predict what the strange things may be, then check. Decide which is strangest, best, worst thing to find. Create a story about how they got there. https://www.shithot.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/Weird-Things-Found-in-Lofts.jpg

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Here’s an infographic about giving difficult feedback https://www.shithot.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/difficult-feedback.jpg

This is quite an old article on using wordclouds https://peacheypublications.com/word-clouds-in-elt

An interesting article with lots of useful links https://www.ictworks.org/distance-education-teacher-training/

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A useful up-to-date infographic about Nettiquette https://www.dailyinfographic.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/netiquettte-high-res-1400x4834.png

This AI tool claims to be able to write the closing line to jokes! Might be nice to get students to try it and see if they can actually get it to produce one that’s funny. Could lead into a discussion of humour https://punchlines.ai/ (unlikely to put comdians out of busines.)

This is a marvelous tool that allows students to engage in debates on any topic with a famous person of their choice. I just debated immigration with Donald Trump! https://debateai.org/debate really useful practice for higher levels.

This is an interesting AI tool that enables users to get a Tarot reading about any challenge they are facing. As well as giving a reading it also encourages self reflection through creative visualisation tasks. https://www.selfgazer.com/

This is an interesting AI tool that enables users to get a Tarot reading about any challenge they are facing. As well as giving a reading it also encourages self reflection through creative visualisation tasks. https://www.selfgazer.com/

An interesting AI tool for building reading activities. Will also check CEFR level https://www.cathoven.com/en/

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TalkNotes is an impressive free app that allows to to take notes by speaking and convert them into different types of texts. They can be plain transcripts of what you say or it will convert them to lists, journal entries or notes. These can be edited before you store them. The free version is unlimited and the paid version offers other styles that you can convert to. https://talknotes.io/

This is a fantastic collection of public domain films, cartoons, documentaries and TV shows. Easy to download and great for making lessons more interesting. https://retroflix.org/

This is a great tool if you prefer listening to reading. It also adds a short summary https://www.letsrecast.ai

Here’s a video showing how it works https://youtu.be/zGVn8Nh4Rks