Diffit is an amazing tool. It saves teachers time by helping them create personalized resources that are just right for each student’s needs. With Diffit, teachers have the flexibility to create their own resources or use articles and videos from the internet to generate exercises. ( it also provides sources from the internet that you…
Or Chinese Whisper Sentences: How to Run a Chinese Whisper Dictation I have to admit something. For years, I was not a fan of dictation. The word alone brought back a very specific memory: sitting in primary school, trying to memorise long texts at home, then writing them out from memory in class while the…
Here are some activities you can use when teaching descriptions. Characteristics: Agree on a list of 5 people known to students Dictate words and phrases which describe the people chosen Students write the descriptions you dictate beneath the name of the person they think is referred to. Rights/ Wrongs Choose something to describe. Tell…
Beauty is a fat black woman walking the fields pressing a breezed hibiscus to her cheek while the sun lights up her feet Beauty is a fat black woman riding the waves drifting in happy oblivion while the sea turns back to hug her shape Grace Nicholls Since Jeremy Harmer read this…
I realised I mostly wrote about quick games, fillers or warmers that may help the teachers to motivate the students or change the phase or the pace of a lesson. I believe these activities are great to present and practice a new language. During the activities, students will be more involved, enthused and eager to do…
http://www.glogster.com/flash/flash_loader.swf?ver=1275302300 If you are also about to finish the school year and need something else other than your course material, quotes are always good for wonderful activities. What can you do with them? 1. Write some of them on pieces of paper and stick to the walls and do wall dictation. 2. Jumble some of…
