It’s summer in the northern hemisphere and most of us have started our summer holidays. Yet some of spend their holidays working in the summer schools or summer camps. Here you can find some activities that may help you
Asking Questions, some fun activities
I know I am a bit late for the following lesson ideas but for a while I’ve been a bit reluctant to write anything. I hope I will keep my blog alive in 2013 …
Now here I go …
Christmas sounds like —
Christmas tastes like —-
Christmas feels like —
Christmas looks like —
Christmas smells like —
Christmas sounds like —-
Christmas is a time
When —
3,2,1 expectations from 2013
When I say we are going to do our New Year’s resolutions, the students always complain telling that they’ve been doing it for ages. I decided to adapt the famous 3,2,1 introductions to a New Year’s first lesson.
Old School option
Give students post-it notes
Write the instructions on the board
3 things you want to do/achieve this year
2 places you want to be/see/visit this year
1 thing you want to buy this year
Digital option
Give the same instructions
Tell students to create comics.
Here are some examples from my students. They are still posting their comics 🙂
http://www.creazaeducation.com/members/Caroler/cartoonist/50850533
I found this activity hidden in one of my idea notebooks a few minutes ago while trying to organize my files.
Ask students to write a question on a piece of paper.
Tell them to fold it down and pass it to the next student.
The next students will also write a question and fold the paper and pass it to the next student.
This will continue until the students get their own papers.
Then tell students to choose
1. a funny question
2. the question they’d like to answer
3. a question they can’t answer
4 . a question with a a grammar mistake, etc
Then they can answer the questions they want to answer.
They can create a wall poster titled “Our Questions and Answers’
I also think this can be a great idea as pre (reading, listening,writing, speaking,etc)
Write the topic on the board
Tell students to write a question on that topic and pass the paper to the next students
When they get their own papers tell them to check the text if they can get an answer for any of the questions on the paper.
or
If you have access to a computer room, before reading the text in the course book, students can search the web and try to get answers for their questions.
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 students to divide a piece of paper into 3 sections as right, wrong and neither right nor wrong
Dictate a number of short statements.
Students write each short statement beneath a suitable heading.
Running picture descriptions
Divide the class into groups.
Place a picture on your desk or on a wall.
Student A from each group goes to the picture to look at it carefully then goes to his group and dictates what he sees. He can go to the picture as many times as he wishes.
My dream holiday
Display 10 postcards of holiday destinations.
Tell students to walk around and choose a postcard.
Tell them to return their seats and write a short letter to a friend telling their visit.
Ideal Holiday Destination
Display 10 postcards of holiday destinations.
Tell students to walk around and choose two postcards.
Tell them to return their seats and write a short letter to a friend telling which will be an ideal destination for their next holiday.
