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10 Tiny Stories: A Simple, Effective Way to Get Beginner ESL Students Speaking
Byevasimkesyan July 13, 2026July 13, 2026

Tiny stories are a simple way to give A1-A2 learners something real to say. As language teachers, we know very well that one of the most difficult things is to find engaging, meaningful and real-life practice material for lower level classes. While planning a speaking lesson for my students, I thought about the following idea….

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A Fun Conditional Activity
Byevasimkesyan April 17, 2025June 13, 2026

An Engaging Alternative for Chain Stories A fun conditional activity can completely change the energy in a grammar lesson. Grammar doesn’t have to mean drills and gap-fills. This activity combines logic, storytelling, and collaboration in a challenge that will get your learners thinking and speaking in conditionals. What’s the idea? Here is an activity I…

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Interactive Grammar Practice: Collaborative Storytelling with ChatGPT
Byevasimkesyan October 26, 2023June 14, 2026

Playing with ChatGPT to write stories. While playing with ChatGPT, I tried writing a story with it. I wrote the first sentence and then I told it to add its sentence to continue the story logically. I told ChatGPT that it can only add one sentence at a time. It was really interesting to…

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Ask AI to Generate the Picture You Described.
Byevasimkesyan October 16, 2023June 13, 2026

A Writing Lesson Idea With A Touch of AI Creativity. Teaching descriptions can be boring both for the teacher and the students. By adding creativity and fun, we can transform this into an engaging classroom activity. I was playing with some text-to image tools and then I’ve come up with the following activity. Please feel…

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Giving Effective Feedback In Writing Classes
Byevasimkesyan February 1, 2023June 14, 2026

Recently I’ve been busy giving a lot of feedback and there are times I really find it very challenging. Reading a lot of papers is hard work. However, the content of the feedback is more challenging than reading the students’ papers. That’s why I just want to focus on it for a while and in…

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5 Creative Ways to Use Newsletters in ELT
Byevasimkesyan January 23, 2023June 14, 2026

In my previous blog post, I wrote about Substack and Canva as newsletter creation tools. I think they can be a powerful tool in the English language classroom. By getting creative and thinking outside the box, we can use newsletters to improve our students’ language skills and keep them engaged in the classroom. Here are…

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Giving Feedback: How to mark your essays easily
Byevasimkesyan September 27, 2020June 15, 2026

If you are not correcting the writing assignments on Google Drive, there is a very simple way to do so. First download the paper on the desktop. Save as pdf Open the tools on pdf Click on ‘Fill and Sign’ You will see a bunch of tools on the top of the page. Underline, circle…

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If my kids become bloggers
Byevasimkesyan November 10, 2018June 15, 2026

Here is a really cool writing activity you can try with your students. Today we started with some questions written on cards about reading, watching movies, book characters, new trends on social media, etc. Then we read a paragraph about JK Rowling and Harry Potter, why it was a huge success, why we love it,…

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6 Fun No-Prep Activities You Can Play with a Dice
Byevasimkesyan October 22, 2018June 15, 2026

A simple dice can be one of the most useful tools in your classroom toolbox. then why not roll a dice and let the fun begin. What can you do with a dice? There are wonderful no-prep activities to liven up your class, to motivate your students to speak or even to write. Here are…

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Choices We Make, a Poetry Lesson
Byevasimkesyan October 12, 2014June 6, 2026

“Let us go singing as far as we go: the road will be less tedious.” Virgil Choices are important in our lives. Sometimes there are times we regret, there are times we pray for what we’ve chosen. I have a group of mixed-ability students in grade 11 studying mostly languages. Some of them are not…

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Guided Collaborative Story Writing
Byevasimkesyan July 10, 2014June 7, 2026

For this guided collaborative story writing activity, find a photo story, pictures that can be used as sequences or some pictures that can form a story. Make enough copies for your students. Put students in groups. Give each group the 1st picture Tell them to brainstorm anything that comes into their minds first and…

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Using Quotations to Revise Grammar
Byevasimkesyan October 25, 2011June 21, 2026

Last week we revised modals with my year 12 students and after doing a lot of exercises, tests, etc ( they are studying for the university entrancre exam and they will take the language exam so they need to master the grammar and the skills as well) I realised they still got confused as most of…

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