Tag Archives: Diary of a Creative English Trainer

Don’t sell yourself short Now – my maiden name used to be ‘Little’ and I’m only 5 foot, so I have a predisposition for ‘selling myself short’! But I’ve learned along the way that it’s amazing what people take in, even when you think you’ve […]

Star-struck luvvies! We were recently privileged to have a visit from our local MP to one of my Creative English classes, and suddenly we all morphed into different people! Gone was the dress-down feel; gone was the normal buzz of chitchat: out came the best […]

Did you hear what I said? There are four skills that speakers of other languages need: reading, writing, speaking and listening.  We often forget about listening, as it is something we kind of ‘do’ automatically. The work of our Creative English Programme has a special […]

Having fun is mandatory! The FaithAction Creative English team needed little persuasion when it came to planning a summer programme!  Hubs from various East London bases joined together to have fun during the ‘official summer close down’, providing opportunities to continue and cement relationships formed […]

Taking Creative liberties! I thought I’d share some tweaks I’ve made with a couple of Session Plans for Creative English. The beauty of this programme is that it contains 38 pre-prepared, highly relevant Session Plans for all our Hubs to make use of.  We have […]

A Question of Balance, Bed Bugs and Bengali (For those who are of the ‘Baby Boomer’ era, you may remember a rock group called The Moody Blues?  Hence the reference to one of their most successful albums during the early ‘70s!  For those who haven’t […]

Volunteer Progress I would like to take a serious moment in my blog today, because I have seen firsthand the effect that Creative English is having on an individual’s life. Yasmin (not her real name) came initially to our Ilford class.  She comes from Pakistan, […]

Day Six Celery and Cat Slippers in Newham! We now have a small core group, with new ones being added. They are all delightful! Took in a whole bunch of celery today, since hardly anyone had recognised this food card in last week’s activity. We […]

A brand new hub opens in Newham! Day Five This Tuesday saw the opening session of the first Creative English Hub in Newham, with our very first eight learners. They were all very tentative and nervous, but seemed to enjoy the poster-making activity (which tells […]

It’s amazing what you can do with a tablecloth! Day Four Today, the class numbers swelled to 17. All our original students are attending, plus a whole load more. Plus our new trainer, Bobby, has come along to see how we work. Plus Gwyn and […]