Spooky season is here! And what better way for your pupils to learn vocabulary to do with Halloween than with these Halloween Dominoes. I enjoy teaching Halloween-themed classes because they can really be adapted for different ages and abilities. You can do vocabulary-based activities with younger pupils or horror film analyses for older pupils. Something…
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TPT: English Irregular Verbs Flashcards
Ah, les verbs irréguliers en anglais… La partie peut-être la moins appréciée de la grammaire anglaise. Mais c’est pour cette raison que j’ai créé des English Irregular Verbs Flashcards pour aider les élèves à apprendre ces verbes d’une manière ludique ! Cette ressource comprend des flashcards pour la totalité des verbes irréguliers. Au recto, il…
Learning English with Social Media
I don’t know about you, but I am encountering more and more pupils who are learning English with social media. Instead of using books or audio courses, they are reading and replying to Tweets and following English-speaking influencers on YouTube. Whilst social media can have a bad rep, and rightly so, it is also an…
TPT : Page de garde pour le cahier d’anglais
Je reviens cette semaine suite à ce blog post ici pour vous parler de mon premier produit sur ma boutique Teachers Pay Teachers. Je vous présente : une page de garde pour le cahier d’anglais ! J’ai créé une page de garde avec plusieurs symboles du monde anglophone que vos élèves peuvent colorier et décorer…
Miss Bonheur: My TPT Store
So I finally took the leap of faith! I have opened my TPT (Teachers Pay Teachers) Store, under the same name as this blog “Miss Bonheur“. I am so excited to be able to share all of my resources that I have so much fun creating. I hope that you will find something…
Pourquoi je démissionne de l’Éducation Nationale
Bon… Il y a cinq ans, je n’aurais jamais rêvé qu’un jour, je serais en train d’écrire cet article de blog. Mais voilà. Après de très longues réflexions, une année de report de stage et des expériences de l’enseignement en dehors de l’Éducation Nationale, j’ai pris la grande décision de démissionner et de…
Why Teaching English is Hard as a Native Speaker
It is very common for people to think that teaching their native language will be easy. After all, you’ve spoken it all your life and have no problems understanding everything. Surely it can’t be that hard? Let me tell you that yes, it is that hard. So if you’re thinking about becoming an English teacher outside…
5 Ways to Stay Organised as a Teacher
[Disclaimer: This post contains affiliate links which means that I will earn a small commission from your purchases if you use these links, at no cost to you.] I love being organised. There is nothing better than having everything ready in advance. So when I started working as a teacher, I was instantly excited to…
Prof d’anglais : mes fournitures scolaires
[DISCLAIMER : Cette page contient des liens affiliates. Si vous utilisez les liens, je recevrai une petite commission pour chaque achat.] S’il y a une chose que j’aime plus qu’enseigner, c’est d’acheter des fournitures scolaires. Depuis petite, j’ai une passion pour tout ce qui est de cahiers, carnets, jolis stylos, belles trousses, surligneurs. J’étais toujours,…
What I Have Learnt So Far as a Teacher
Whoever said that becoming a teacher meant learning new things every single day for the rest of your life was certainly not wrong. Since starting teaching, I have probably learnt more about the profession, about how children learn, and about myself than I have learnt in all of my years of study. Teaching can sometimes…