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…
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…
image credit ”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…
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…
I’ll host the 24th edition of ESL/EFL/ELL Blog Carnival on 1st of September. As schools start in September in most of the countries, I’m planning to do a Warmers, Fillers and First Week Activities edition. If you want to participate, you can use the easy submission form or you can contact me from here or twitter if…
image taken from here This is the 3rd and the last post of graded-reader-ideas. If you want to add another activity to this list, I will be very happy. 21. Tell students to list all the interesting words, phrases and expressions or all the new words,…
11. Tell the students to choose one of the characters and write about his/her life 10 years from the ending of the story. 12. Tell students to create a quiz on the story. They have to include vocabulary questions, comprehension questions, discussion questions, etc 13. Ask them to create a word poster of the book…
