Trying to get our students to read more English we decided to make an English section at our school library. First, we talked about what...

After our TTW in Denmark I felt challenged to speak more English in my English lessons. For the most part I give the instructions in...

In fifth grade, we have been reading Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. We have been reading some chapters at school, and the pupils have...

After the first TOELF test in my fifth grade, it was obvious that the reading skill was not nearly as good as the listening skill....

When we had to take the TOEFL test for the first time in the 5th grade both me as teacher and the students were excited to see how it...

Twice a year we have an English meeting at our school, where all the English teachers get together and discuss English teaching for two...

How do you make students more engaged and invested in using English? You give them a purpose for using their English! Some students...

By Daan Bomans, 3Havo student at the Waerdenborch, Goor, the Netherlands Today we’re working on a project called Cultural Exchange. Our...

Over the past weeks, we have been working with National Geographic's Look method on the different spaces in and around the house. The...

As a warm-up for the English lesson about world travel, the pupils did the activity 'Find someone who...'. This activity was introduced...

An English lesson in level 3 'The sky is the limit' The pupils from level class 3 at OBS Stedeke in the Netherlands are busy with writing...

In 5th grade, we have started to use more time on practicing the student´s listening skills. We are used to practice listening while...

By Renate Telgenhof, SG de Waerdenborch Goor, the Netherlands To be able to offer the students at the Waerdenborch a different way of...

In this series of blogs I will write about our school’s contribution to the iBUILDIT Toefl project, that runs until the end of 2023....

Practicing vocabulary with the students in 4th to 6th grade can sometimes be challenging, because of the more complex subjects we are...

In 5th grade at Vester Nebel School, we have been reading for 20 min. every week since the autumn break in October. Some of the students...

Back in October when we had our teacher training week, we had an exciting lesson in How to Use Pictures in the English Classroom. Alex...

My fifth-graders at Vester Nebel Skole are not used to reading a lot in English. Therefore, I started up reading with them when I got...

In Denmark, we are not used to taking assessments in the way we do in this project. At least not at our school. We take some National...

Blogpost 1 iBUILDIT International Erasmus + project SG De Waerdenborch Goor (NL) By Lise Dunsbergen In a series of upcoming blogs I...