Vintage Everyday is a site I came across via Read.Now.Learn.Go, a fabulous site updated almost everyday, full of links to very interesting sites that you can use in the class. I was thinking about an activity that my students could do before we start working on narrative tenses in the class and this is my plan…
I haven’t taken any blog challenges so far this year and a dear friend who I first met on twitter and then in real life, Carol Goodey tagged me for a very challenging 🙂 blog challenge. It looks difficult to find 11 of everything but I’ll try to do my best. Let’s see what the…
After studying descriptive adjectives. I told my students to describe each person in their group by choosing an adjective for each letter of their names. They worked eagerly to find lots of positive adjectives to describe their classmates. Then I decided to write the names on post-it notes and design a simple poster for the…
Starfall itself is an amazing site but if you click on this link, you will be taken to an amazing list of activities and games. All About Me is a fun game on starfall that your young learner will create a character and hear how to say the words. On toytheatre.com you can find games, stories…
Welcome to the 37th ELT Blog Carnival. Many thanks for the colleagues who shared their lessons here and Many thanks to my PLN who spread the news of the carnival when I tweeted or FBed about it. OK, Folks… Let’s begin … Do you hear the merry sounds, songs, giggles of a happy moment from…
One of the stories I love revisiting is Eveline from Dubliners. This year with my year 12 students we read it again. I’d like to share the follow-up activities we did. I grouped the students and assigned them with one task. They chose one and created the followings. FOLLOW-UP 1. Adapt Eveline to 21st century…
I blogged about Google apps that I was planning to use this year but while chatting with some colleagues the other day, I realized there are still a lot of people who need help with some digital tools that may help reduce their workload. I used to email lesson plans and worksheets to myself in order…
Here are some great drama sites for English teachers. Drama in the ESL Classroom is a resource site for EFL, ESL teachers who are interested in using drama in their teaching. The site contains explanations on drama techniques and links to other sites. Classroom Lesson Plans a great sites full of links to very useful…
Without music, life would be a mistake. Friedrich Nietzsche All these songs can be used as a simple gap fill activity, but they can also work as models for writing similar songs with the same grammar pattern, or as a way to talk about stories and the past in general. Here is my playlist, and just…
Today’s learners are way too visual than us. That’s why we tend to decorate our classes with posters, notes, post-it notes, charts, etc. They are so used to seeing everything by googling that if you try to describe it using words they understand nothing. I came across with MapCrunch today and I thought it can…
In this post, I want to share 5 cool literature sites. VirtualLit is an awesome site any teacher or a student who is interested in literature will love very much. VirtualLit is a step by step multimedia tutorial for a number of poems, novels, short stories and plays. Teaching Literature is a wiki dedicated to teaching…
 Yet another promising weekend is waiting for the educators all around the world. I’m thrilled to present at 4th Reform Symposium. Have a look at the list of the presentations here I’ll talk about the e-project we started last year at school. My students worked in groups, searched, read and then we organized 3…
