Saw this activity a while back on So this is English…. You can click the link to read the full activity, but basically the idea is that you show students a picture for a few seconds and then get them to describe it. I have done similar things in the past and it works really well, especially if the picture is interesting and has lots of weird details. Students start arguing about what they really saw.
I posted once about my first course as a teacher and how my poor students …Continue

The Statue of Liberty was stolen last night sometime between 6pm and 8pm. At 6pm commuter Jack Brown says he saw it glinting in the sunset and at 8pm, NYPD officer Maria Guevara went to check on the Statue and found it missing. Every one of your students is a suspect and they have to come up with alibis to demonstrate where they were.
Alibi is a fun lesson plan that gets students talking and asking questions. Find out who your future CIA or KGB agents are by seeing how seriously …Continue

Another fun article! According to the Chronicle of Higher Education a University of New Hampshire professor has been acquited of charges of stalking and disorderly conduct after allegedly assailing a university administrator because of a parking ticket!
John Collins, department chair of biochemistry and molecular biology, recieved a parking ticket this summer and blamed an intermin dean. Witnesses claim he threatened to kill the dean. That got him banned from campus and stripped of his title of department chair. Although the courts found him innocent, the campus has not reinstated him …Continue