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😂 Funniest misused word or “creative spelling” you’ve ever seen in an essay? (Keep it clean!)

💡 Which classroom discussion has stayed with you years later?

📚 If you could build the perfect classroom library, what’s the first three texts you’d put on the shelf?

📚 What book do you secretly wish you could teach but it’s not on the spec?

✍️ Best one-liner you’ve ever read in a student creative writing piece?

🗣️ “The moment I knew they’d got it was when…” — finish the sentence.

🎭 Drama warm-up: which scene is guaranteed to get students on their feet and engaged?

📖 Which text has given your class the biggest collective gasp at the ending?

💡 What’s a piece of writing advice you give every single year without fail? #EnglishTeacherLife

🖋️ What’s the most painfully cliché essay phrase you’ve seen?

🎥 Name one film adaptation that actually improved on the book — controversial takes welcome!

🎭 Which Shakespeare character sparks the best classroom debates — and why?

🌍 Which translated text has sparked the richest discussions in your classroom?

📝 What’s your go-to quick starter activity that always gets pens moving?

✏️ What’s the funniest essay title a student has ever tried to hand in?

📝 Share one peer-feedback activity that actually works in your English classroom.

📚 If you could swap one “classic” off the curriculum tomorrow, what would you replace it with?

🎤 Which author (living or dead) would you most want to Skype/Zoom into your lesson for 20 minutes? #GlobalLit #EnglishTeaching

📖 What’s the one book you dreaded teaching but ended up loving once you saw how students responded? #EnglishTeachers #TeachingWins

📚 Book covers matter — which edition or cover design has your students loved most?

😂 Funniest “autocorrect fail” you’ve ever read in a student essay? (Keep it clean!)

📖 Your students are rewriting an ending — which text do you choose and what do they change?

🎭 If you could invite one author or playwright (living or dead) to guest-teach your class, who’s walking through the door?

🌍 What’s a non-UK/US text that’s transformed your class discussions? #GlobalLit #EnglishTeaching

🎥 Adaptations — better on screen or better on page? Drop your top example of each.

🖋️ What’s the most overused essay phrase you’ve seen this term? (We’ll make a teacher bingo card!)

📚 If you had to teach your favourite book every year forever, what would it be and why?

🕵️ Which mystery or twist-ending text has given your class the biggest “gasp” moment?

✍️ What’s the single best tip you’ve learned for teaching creative writing and keeping reluctant writers on board?

🎤 Share your most quotable student moment from English class (bonus if it’s about Shakespeare). #OnlyInEnglish

📖 If you could add one contemporary text to every school’s reading list tomorrow, what would it be?

🗣️ The best class discussion you’ve ever had started with…? Finish the sentence.

💡 What’s one lesson you taught years ago that you still remember as a personal best — and why? #EnglishTeacherLife

🎭 Drama in English: which scene from a play always lands when acted out in class, and why?

✏️ What’s the worst piece of essay advice you’ve ever heard students repeat back to you? (Bonus points if it’s hilariously wrong.)

📚 The best “lightbulb moment” you’ve seen from a reluctant reader? Share the book, the moment, and the reaction. #EnglishTeachers #ReadingForPleasure

"Kill the PEEL?" Is the PEEL/PEE structure helping or hurting our writers? What’s your alternative?

"Writing warm-ups that actually work" Drop your best 10-minute quick writes or prompts that never fail. (I’ll start: ‘Write a love letter from a villain.’)

"Rewriting the canon" What’s ONE book you’ve added to your curriculum that changed your students' engagement with English?

"This passage always lands." A thread of excerpts from literary texts that always spark discussion, even in a sleepy Year 10 class.