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…
AnswerGarden is a new tool that you can use in the classroom for barinstorming or getting feedback. You don’t have to sign up, but when you create a poll or a question to think. The website asks you to put a password on it and then you can decide how long it will be open….
Level: All Age: All Target Language : Narrative Tenses, Adjectives to describe emotions, feelings, etc. Give each student a handout with the chart below. Play the sound effects you chose Ask the students to fill in the following chart What do…
Last week, we were reading a text on pyramids and pharaohs and one of my students said, “Let’s go and see it and come back here in the next lesson.” And I said, “OK, we’re just going to walk around the pyramids in Egypt and south America.” Thanks to the IWB and the internet, we…
Here are 5 fun activities that you can use in an EFL, ESL Class: 1. Categories Divide the class into two. Explain the rules. You will give the students a category. Call 2 students from each team to the board. Set 2 minutes and tell them to write the words that come to their mind….
Without literature, language classes will be boring. I like ways to bring the novels, short stories, poems into the classroom and make my students think about things happening in them. I believe we are pretty lucky because we have so many online resources and texts that we can recommend our students to read. To tell…
We love playing games in the class and quiz-show type games are very popular in our classrooms. We have the PowerPoint format of most games but if we want to change certain things on them to adapt the game for our own needs, we spend long hours and sometimes we give up. I’ve just come…
We all have more motivated, fast thinking students in our classes. Often we feel guilty that they can’t advance more as they wait for their classmates to finish the tasks given. I got the idea of more tasks for fast finishers from Pinterest pins. Some teachers prepared posters for them, some had jars with reviewing…
1. Writing chain stories or even writing chain poems. If you decide to do the chain poem writing activity, then give them a skeleton If I drink coffee, I’ll stay awake tonight If I stay awake tonight, I’ll fall asleep in the morning. And if I fall asleep in the morning, My teacher will…
We were working on narrative tenses and the writing task of the lesson was ‘writing a story’. My class is small and it’s a real mixed-ability class. although it’s small, it sometimes takes very ages for the students to master something. The book we’re using organized the activity very well – first making students to know…
“I have a mixed ability class and some of the students refuse to respond to the lessons whereas some are highly motivated and some of them join us when they feel they can do” Isn’t this a common problem for teachers? People learn better when they want to learn. I agree that teachers can only…
Flipped Classroom, Blended Learning, techy tools … These have been in our lives for a few years. Everyday we come across with a new tool, a new site a new idea that we can use in our classes. I just discovered the following tools and I’m planning to give them a try in the New…
