Author: evasimkesyan

  • Teacher Workshops

    Well, I told you about the wonderful experience we had with Berni and told that the whole thing was part of a professional development course. We started with advanced grammar and continued with getting students to write, use technology tools (blogs, wikis etc developing ideas), or the traditional way. The following day was about improving…

  • Reading Authentic

    image created via Add Letters Reading is one of the activities I love doing. However, students don’t usually like it as they haven’t built a habit for reading or they think they don’t read in their daily lives. When I ask about their preferences, they mostly say they don’t read anything. Of course, they do read. We know…

  • Skyping Discussions

            image from here I’m thinking about a new challenge. This year thanks to twitter and my PLN, I and my students experienced wonderful things. We had global projects and skype chats now I’m thinking to move it one step further. Sometimes we organise debates in the class. I thought maybe we…

  • Chaos on my blog

    Well, I’m not happy with the look of my blog. I used Blue Zinfandel Enhanced by Brian Gardne which is very modern,simple and easy to look and read. However, I wanted something more energetic and decided to make a change. Changes are sometimes very good and they save us. Don’t we change our hair colour…

  • Sentence Starters

      Can you finish the following sentences so that they will be true for you? Without my PLN,… Twitter enables me … Social media is … If I weren’t blogging, … I love using sentence starters as a warmer, filler or a grammar/vocabulary activity. Whenever you feel you’re stuck in the lesson, dictate some sentence…

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    BEAUTY

        Beauty is a fat black woman walking the fields pressing a breezed hibiscus to her cheek while the sun lights up her feet   Beauty is a fat black woman riding the waves drifting in happy oblivion while the sea turns back to hug her shape Grace Nicholls Since Jeremy Harmer read this…

  • Habit is …

    Motivation is what you get started. Habit is what keeps you going. Unknown We think that motivation is very important and it really is. It is one of the key factors to achieve our goals. However, it isn’t enough. Although you want to change the world, although you want to go one step further, you…

  • WRITING TASKS

      One of the skills that our students must improve is writing. I believe if you have something to say it is easier to write. Usually the students do the reading tasks, vocabulary and grammar exercises eagerly but when it comes to write they can’t produce. I think it has many reasons but I still…

  • Thinking Aloud

    Every year we graduade groups of kids and they just fly away to the real world. Some of them manage to enter the best universities in the country, some of them are luckier with some financial support from their parents, some of them have no support at all, other than the teachers and friends. Sometimes…