I’m in my hotel room in Brighton now and thinking about the day. I attended Learning Technologies pre-conference event. The talks were on IWB. We started the day with Connie Gutenberg’s brief introduction. She demonstrated how she used it with her class. The texts she chose for the session were amazing. I really loved the…
When I read the tweet about last year’s conference and learned most of the presenters and educators whom I admired were coming, I was thrilled. The conference sounded very promising and it was a great opportunity for the teachers who can’t go to conferences very often as it would also be live broadcasted. ELT VIPs, enthusiastic teachers,…
Life is too hectic these days and also I have many things to plan and arrange. Since the day I learned I’ll be attending IATEFL this year, I’ve been very excited. IATEFL has been a dream for me and I remember I wrote it in one of my posts last year. Well, when I had…
And only 2 days to go to Istek Schools International ELT Conference2011. I remember last year. It was such a big excitement to wait for the event. I met most of my PLN there and had the chance to chat and enjoy every break. It was not just a conference. I had great fun…
It all started with the reading text in our course book called ‘Boys R Us’, Going for Gold, Upper-int. (Longman) The story was about a teenager who was a reluctant student but changed when a teacher assigned them to write a 20 page- story in 2 months. The teenager went home and wrote his 20…
This post is written for Shelly Terrell’s #30 goals challenge. It was some years ago. I had the prep classes then which means I had 12 hours with the class to teach grammar. The students I had that year were the laziest or the most demotivated ones in my teaching career. They didn’t have the…
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…
