Am I too late? Just found this poem ‘The colour of my dreams’ by Peter Dixon while searching for something else in my files and I thought it would be lovely to take it to staff room to think once again on success rates, even to the classroom to make students realise there are different…
I love the idea of small talks where students present something to their classmates and in a way they learn how to present, how to talk in front of a crowd. We use a topic based coursebook in that way students focus on a different topic in each unit. This year I told my students that they…
Well, when do you say, I will survive? Guess I can hear you? If a friend has a broken heart and is very sad, what advice will you give and in thend make her say ‘I will survive’ Don’t worry it is not me who needs to be strong 🙂 Here is my lesson: And…
I guess you all know that I love using songs in lessons. This week I’ll teach giving advice, talking about regrets. The target language is the modals for that. I decided to start with a song. When I prepare I will also share but after I tweeted ‘Dear PLN, can u suggest me a song…
Well, well, well, it’s been a very hectic month. As you know I was a runner in the elt-blogathon, a marathon for bloggers. It is over now or it will be over today but as I blogged my last posts last night. I can say it is over. It was a great challenge. I never…
It’s a very quiet Sunday for me today. Nobody is at home and I’m with my laptop and I’ve bookmarked loads of great sites so far. My number #1 is Max My Dream which is also became a fave for Ana Maria Menezes and she blogged about it. You will find her post very useful as she…
image taken here As Andrew Wright said ‘We are all stories’ and because of that stories are very important in our lives. Once my daughter (when she was very little) told me that ’ a storyteller living in the sky reads our stories to us every day and we act in…
Part of the series From my PLN I wanted to be an archeologist or work with animals. Well, definitely anything really dynamic, changing and what would include my constant learning and development – I do love learning! I studied Teaching English as a Foreign Language but during the last year of my studies I came…
Well, During February I’ll blog at ELT Blogathon on the Teaching English website as evab2001. I know how important is IATEFL for English teachers and I know very well that the online community should also be blamed for evoking enthusiasm among fellow teachers. I also want to be there with my PLN so I’ll try my best…
1. Choose a poem to read with your students. 2. Write the title on the board and ask students to predict what the poem is about. 3. Divide the class in groups. 4. Give each group a copy of a word cloud you prepared previously. 5. Ask students to write a poem using the words…
Part of the series From my PLN Music is everywhere, it surrounds us from the moment we are born – well even before that;) My father is a music lover so my earliest childhood memories revolve around singing, dancing and „making” my own music. I loved to record songs or my covers of rhymes;) I…
Lemon Tree: Activities for Prepositions, Present Continuous, and Adjectives Lemon Tree truly is one of those songs that keeps giving, no matter which structure you want to focus on. I was reading Vicky Saumell’s Eltchat summary on Teaching English through songs in the digital age (part 3 of 4): Specific songs and their uses, I…
