Behind the site
Made by a teacher, for teachers
Aylara spent years cutting cards and drawing game boards by hand before every lesson. AylaraTalks is the toolkit she wished she had, so no teacher starts from a blank page.
Everything you need for a more creative lesson.
Explore original teaching resources, interactive games, and classroom tools — all in one place.
- 22 games
- 55 topic packs
- 215 articles
- Works online and offline
Find what you need
Start from who you teach
Pick the age of the learners in front of you.
- Ages 3–7
Young Learners
First words, songs and play: a lesson path from the very first class.
- Ages 8–11
Kids
Teams, rules and first grammar: lesson paths for ages 7–11.
- Ages 12–17
Teens
Conversation topics from travel to technology, with questions that get a class talking.
- 18+
Adults
Real-life role-plays: a job interview, the doctor's, a hotel desk. Two roles, useful phrases, ready to run.
Interactive learning
Lessons that move
All interactiveEach game is a small world built around one kind of practice. Open it on a shared screen and the class plays together.
Interactive Game
School Objects
A classroom to explore: hear the words, pack the bag, listen and find, count and say.
- Ages 3–7
- Pre-A1
Interactive Game
Star Quest
Teams sail an island of surprise cards — six kinds of challenge, and a class pet that hatches while you play.
Interactive Game
Sentence Factory
Word tiles ride in on a conveyor — put them in order, catch the wrong word, and write one silly story together.
Interactive Game
Coral Deep
A word is spoken and the fish swim past carrying pictures. Tap the one that matches, and a pearl drops into the shell.
Interactive Game
Garden of Pairs
Every card is a seed packet in a walled garden. Turn one and it blooms; find its twin and the pair stays in flower, with a butterfly to prove it.
Interactive Game
Story Lantern
The story is written on the panels of a paper lantern. Read it, hear any line again, then show what you understood.
Teacher's toolbox
Everything the lesson needs, one tab away
All toolsSimple, reliable classroom tools. Nothing to install, and they keep working offline.
- Teacher Tool
Classroom Screen
Clock, timer, lucky name, score and a quiet meter on one screen for the whole lesson.Open Classroom timer
A countdown everyone can see, with one-tap presets from 1 to 60 minutes.
Random name picker
Type the class once — this device remembers the names for next time.
Spinner wheel
Write anything on it — names, numbers, questions — and give it a spin.
Classroom noise meter
A sleepy bear who wakes up when the room gets loud.
Team scoreboard
Two to four teams, big buttons, numbers the back row can read.
Would you rather? Picture questions
Two big pictures, one question, a class vote — plus This or that for the little ones.
Lesson Builder
Plan your lesson from what's already here
Pick games, worksheets and presentations from the library, put them into stages and set the minutes. Then print the plan or save it as a PDF.
Open the Lesson Builder
Saved in this browser. No account, nothing to install.
- Choose resources from the library
- Arrange the stages and the time
- Print it or save it as a PDF
On the calendar
This month's shelf
All packsPacks the season is asking for — ready to play, print and practise.
Halloween in English
Everything for a Halloween lesson: nine words with our own pictures, flashcards, worksheets, printables and the Spooky Wheel game.
What to teach next
Start with your child's age
The whole curriculumEach path gives you what to expect at that age, the twelve topics in teaching order with a reason for each, the games that fit, and a weekly rhythm you can actually keep.
- ages 3–4
Teaching English to 3–4 year olds
The first year: listening, naming, and staying happy about it
- ages 5–6
Teaching English to 5–6 year olds
The year words become sounds, and answers become sentences
- ages 7–8
Teaching English to 7–8 year olds
The year the written word finally pulls its weight
- ages 9–11
Teaching English to 9–11 year olds
The years English stops being a subject and starts being a voice
Print and go
The teacher's room
Browse all packs873 picture cards with audio, in topic packs ready to print.
Topic packs
Ready-made shelves
The picture dictionary
How do you spell it?
All 601 words601 English words, A to Z. Open one to hear it said aloud, see its picture and spell it letter by letter.
Methodology
Guides from real lessons
The methodology pathShort, practical writing on how to teach, not only what to teach.
- Teaching vocabulary
How to teach vocabulary to kids: the 4-step loop that works
Meet → say → play → use: a simple vocabulary teaching loop for young learners, with concrete games for every step.
7 min read - One-on-one & online lessons
The 25-minute online lesson: a structure that never fails
Five blocks, timed to the minute, for short online lessons with kids — warm-up, teach, play, produce, land — with games slotted in.
6 min read - Speaking & confidence
How to get kids speaking English: lower the price of every sentence
Kids stay silent when speaking costs too much. Practical ways to make English talk cheap, safe and worth it — with games for each.
7 min read - Teaching preschoolers
Attention spans by age: planning lessons around real children
How long kids can actually focus at 3, 5, 7 and 10 — and how to slice lessons, games and explanations to fit inside it.
6 min read
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