I’m so thrilled because this blog and our wiki project that we started almost a year ago with Alexandra Francisco have been nominated and shortlisted for the edublog awards. I have thousands of words in my mind but can not find the correct ones to Thank everybody who nominated my blog as best teacher blog…
Today I’ll write about my reflections on TESOL France’s 29th Annual Colloquium which was one of the most successful conferences I’ve ever attended. It was successful not only it gave us the chance to listen to David Crystal and watch their amazing family show, it also enabled us to attend many sessions of wonderful…
Here is my session for TESOL France 2010 Warmers,fillers, improvisations in efl classroomhttp://static.slidesharecdn.com/swf/ssplayer2.swf?doc=warmersfillersimprovisationsineflclassroom-101202142115-phpapp01&stripped_title=warmersfillers-improvisations-in-efl-classroom&userName=eva2001 View more presentations from eva2001. and you can download the handouts clicking http://www.box.net/shared/2xmpbx363f
It’s difficult to make the nominations as I follow wonderful educators who help me develop professionally 7/24. I really feel guilty to leave some of them out of this list. But as David said in his post I believe all the educators who are online and helping others by sharing and collaborating are…
image taken from here Well, when I sat down to write my reflections on TESOL France which was a huge success, I focused on faces rather than the sessions I attended. I saw the faces of teachers who arrived from the different corners of the world to update their skills, to learn more or…
Using drills or drill like activities will sometimes save us. However it is up to the teacher to turn it into something more enjoyable. We revised Past Simple Tense and past Continuous Tense last week and while doing this I felt hopless and then I decided to make them write as many sentences as they…
I think most of you will agree with me that drilling can be boring and it is very old-fashioned. It is mechanical and it doesn’t promote any critical and creative thinking. However, don’t you ever think they work with certain classes, students. I couldn’t catch yesterday’s eltchat but as I followed from the tweets, it…
I have a group of students who are studying for the university entrance exam. These students will also take the language test too because they want to study TEFL or literature. Mostly we do more serious work in order to be ready for the vital test. However, there are times we need to take a…
image source Being a parent is a big challenge. Bringing up twins is twice a big 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…
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…
image source here 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…
