Comenius Multilateral Projects are funded by EU, lifelong learning programmes and after a long search, we finally have a Comenius project for 2011-2013 Academic Years. Our project is called ‘The Magic of Reading, The Power of Discovering Ourselves’. We have 6 partners and we have just started our exciting journey to discover ourselves. The teachers…
Adam Simpson on his blog challenged us to revist 11 posts that we wrote in 2011 and here I’m listing my favourite posts from 2011. 1. Teachers with Voices : This one is written at teachingenglish.org.uk for the blogathon. 2. Teachers as Storytellers 3.Challenging the Demotivated 4. A Poetry Lesson 5.Songs in EFL Classroom 6….
‘Turning Challenges into Opportunities’ was called the conference and it really helped us to see the opportunities that lay ahead us. A teacher who is eager to teach and overcome obstacles will always find ways to turn challenges into opportunities. I’d like to thank all the Dogus University conference organisers, stuff and students who tried to…
Since I rediscovered tabblo, I’ve been playing with it. It is such a great tool and will spice up your lessons or presentations. ”Tabblo.com is a great place for creating shareable online stories with your photos and words.” You can upload or use flickr photos, add text, choose a layout to tell your stories. You can publish…
It is too difficult to do this but ı feel I have to 🙁 I wish there were more cathegories … 2011 Categories Best individual blog Close Up (but also Authentic Teaching) Best individual tweeter @kalinagoenglish and @BELTfree Best new blog B’s life with English Best ed tech / resource sharing blog Özge karaoglu’s blog Most influential…
dedication team spirit dignity passion joy from what they have been doing motivation self-confidence pride of the work they have been doing ambition enthusiasm hospitality cheerful hardworking friendly well-organised and many more ….. Sometimes sentences are not enough to describe certain things if…
The following activity was something spontaneous when we did ‘indirect questions’ but then I felt the students still needed practice, something more like a mechanical drill but I was not prepared for more exercises so I did the folllowing. I told mys sts to have 4 slips of paper. On each paper, I told…
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…
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…
I think the life Steve Jobs led, his achievements, his dreams, his talks and the gadgets he revolutionised and presented us will teach many lessons to the teenagers. They have a long life with dreams and opportunites so I decided to take this article to class tomorrow and prepared a lesson on it. You can…
I have been quite busy recently and I realise I’ve missed many interesting things going on in the blogosphere. Yesterday I found out this photoblog challenge and really enjoyed reading all the posts and tasks. Brad has a list of bloggers who took the challenge and you can see them here. Tasks: Find at least…
Dear friends, I haven’t written for a long time but I was a bit busy. This post is a letter actually. When I look back , I think 2010-2011 was a very successful school year both for me and my students. With students we did many interesting things apart from the curriculum. The CelebrateUandMeDigitally wiki…
