✨Did you know...?✨There are over a million words but the average native English speaker only knows about 20,000-35,000 English words.

✨Did you know...?✨There are over a million words but the average native English speaker only knows about 20,000-35,000 English words.

Which cheese is made backwards? .........Edam 😂

Very healthy!

💗English teachers💗What snack do you always have on hand? Something that gets you through a busy day, and you hide from students at all costs.

The English teacher looked at a student and asked them to name two pronouns. The student replied ‘who me?’

✨Did you know...?✨The word 'run' has over 600 different uses? You can use it to talk about so many things, such as running a race, running a business or household, running to the shops, if your nose is running, or even saying that software runs on a computer.

💗English teachers💗Tell us about that one student who made a lasting impact on you.

You can’t run through a campsite.. You can only ran, because it’s past tents.

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✨Did you know...?✨ 800 to 1,000 words are added to English dictionaries every year! The creation of new words has been accelerated due to the internet and new technology. Some words recently added to dictionaries include: goated, delulu, nepo baby and brain rot.

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Why should you never date an apostrophe? They're too possessive!

💗English teachers💗 What is your favourite thing to teach? (It could be a topic, grammar point or skill.. anything you look forward to covering in the classroom!)

✨Did you know...?✨An ambigram is a word that looks the same from various orientations. For example, the word "swims" will be the same even when turned upside down.

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✨Did you know...?✨ Some linguists describe English as a 'romance language in disguise' because of the amount of vocabulary borrowed from French and Latin.

The past, present and future walked into a bar. It was very tense.

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English teachers, what do you do on the first day of class to make your students feel welcome?

✨Did you know...?✨The most common letter in English is “E” — appearing in about 11% of all words.

Easy English teacher hack: Stick a strip of masking tape across each student’s desk. It becomes their mini “word bank” area where they can write tricky or new words during the lesson.

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There is a fierce debate happening in Twinkl's virtual ESL writing room... what do you call these?

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English teachers! Do you have a classroom theme this year?

Easy English teacher hack: Instead of traditional exit tickets, give your students a sticky note and ask them to write one new word or phrase they learned AND use it in a short sentence.

English teachers! What is something new you are trying in your classroom this year?