Energisers are great activities and can save lives when you feel your students are not in the lesson anymore. These quick games can be used to bring your students back to classroom. A little bit movement, mingle, laughter will break the ice, will help to get rid of the boredom. Maybe the focus is not…
Being a working mother is not easy. Being a teacher and a mother is a real challenge. Sometimes my kids grumble to me about my job. They complain because I spend too much time working for other kids. They complain when they get lower marks from English and say I never do anything for them….
Well, well, I know ELT is a male dominant (or maybe used to be, considering all the female ELT stars on twitter and FB) sector around the world. However, it has always been more feminist in Turkey. ( maybe it has another reason to be discussed in another post yet I really loved the idea…
Sometimes questions are more important than answers. Nancy Willard I sometimes feel one of the most ignored area in my classroom is practising asking questions. When I started teaching English, there was a trendy activity to ask questions. That was Find the question for the underlined answer which was very mechanical and boring and while checking my…
Tips for Teaching Reading to ESL Students http://www.myseveralworlds.com/2011/06/19/esl-educators-guide-tips-for-teaching-reading-to-esl-students/ Article write-up Teaching tips and advice on how you can make your reading assignments more interesting and relevant to the age level that you are teaching. Carrie Kellenberger, a freelance writer and photographer living in Asia since 2003, writes about life as an expat, Asian travel destinations,…
We organise a scrabble tournament every year and we invite our sister schools to join us. At the award ceremony we perform a play for our guests. This year I wanted it to be different because in grade 10 I had students who can sing very well but the school I work is not very big…
Janet Bianchini is one of the first people I started following when I stepped in twitter and blogosphere. From the day I’ve met her virtually, I received infinite support from her. So for Brad’s blog interview challenge I also wanted to interview her. Before I got her answers, I tried to answer them. Here are…
When I read Brad Patterson’s blog challenge PLN interviews… who’s next ?, I thought it would be difficult for me to choose a member from my PLN as all of them were so important for me and after meeting most of them they’ve become real life friends whom I can rely on as much as my…
Marisa Constantinides challenged us ”to contribute lesson ideas for the foreign language classroom which will be aimed at younger learners and teens and which will promote the concept of a disabled-friendly world where people who have mobility issues can have easy access to services, places of learning, public and private spaces easily and safely.” Before…
”I actually think one of my strengths is my storytelling”. Quentin Tarantino Last week we talked about storytelling at ELTChat and Leahn summarised the chat on her blog. You can find many interesting ideas and links there. While chatting I realised the chat is more focused on students’ telling or writing stories.I attended the…
At Bahçeşehir University, on May 14th, I had the chance to listen to Stephen Krashen, who was the person on my linguistics notes, PD courses I attended and there he was talking about his acquisition theory. I’m not going to tell about the whole event as I was there only in the morning and rushed to…
The blurb on the back describes “Essential TEFL ”, written by James Jenkin and Emma Foers, as a source ‘Crammed with 300 activities, teaching aids and full guide to English grammar’. The book aims to support the new teachers and help them build confidence in planning lessons in their first years in TEFL. It is…
