Being a parent is a big challenge. Raising twins? That’s twice the challenge and if you are a teacher and a mother of twins then life is more difficult for you once they started school. You know the rights, wrongs. You spend days, nights trying not to compare them. You fight with people when they…
After writing the fun activities for present simple and present continuous, I decided to continue compiling all the fun activities that I’ve been using for years here. I’ve just done future tenses so I think it’s time to think about the fun follow ups. Fortunetelling: Pair them and ask them to write a dialogue between…
When I went to the computer lab with my young learners, I realised that creating something using web 2.0 tools won’t very easy with them as I only see them once a week. I’m just thinking about tools that don’t require registration and e-mail confirmation as it will be too time consuming. They are digital…
What does ‘being a teacher’ stand for? Does it only mean a person who teaches? A person who teaches what? Is it that important to teach maths, science, English,etc? When do we lose the kids? Do they all want to start school and learn immediately what he they have been taught? What will happen to…
For almost 16 years I haven’t had young learners. This year I have a group of 10 year olds. I just see them once a week and our idea was to give them a chance to chat in English. Their level of English is so basic, as you can guess .However, their enthusiasm is…
Everyday we come across with a tweet on whether coursebooks are evil or not. We even eltchatted about it. As an EFl teacher, I love ‘EFL course books’ and most of my colleagues who are not teaching English are jealous of us beacuse our course books are full of ideas, resources, extra materials and even tests….
Improvisations part 2 Sometimes I adapt activities from TV shows, games, etc. The following activity is from a drama group called ‘Mahser-i Cumbus’. While watching their performance, I usually find great ideas for my classes. It sounds a bit confusing but it really is fun. Student A stands up and mimes. While miming she makes…
I mentioned this activity in my previous post and today I asked my students tothink about their favourite objects and write how these object spend the day. While they were doing, I realised this would be great with glogster. So the next lesson, we went to the computer lab and my students created their first glogs….
With my grade 10 students, we are revising the simple present tense at the moment and while planning what I’ll do, I listed some activities that I used in the previous years as warmers or fillers. I’ll be happy if you also add your favourite Present Simple Tense activities here A DAY IN THE LIFE…
Last weekend I attended a 2-day-professional development workshops on etwinning for beginners. I must say I learned a lot. I’ve been registered etwinning with a hope to find a Comenius project partner for almost a year but attending the workshops I realised I knew nothing about the site. Etwinning gives teachers a wonderful opportunity to…
Eventually My Journey in TEFL is celebrating her 1st birthday in blogosphere. I’m so glad that I started blogging. I believe September is a very lucky month for me. I’m not going to reveal everything but many good things in my life all started in September. Everything started last year on 5th of September with…
This is a fun activity that I found from ESLCafe years ago and I love using it once every year. It’s even great to team your students for their group works. Group the students as the 1st child, middle child, youngest child of their family or a single child. Prepare a handout with some questions similar…
