In the next academic year, I’m planning to teach my students how to benefit from AI and show them that it’s not here for them to cheat and if they can learn how to use it, they will benefit from it a lot. Last year, I used ChatGPT to create lessons and exercises. I…
In ELT, we tend to use Concept Checking Questions a lot because we believe CCQs play an important role in ensuring that students grasp the target language accurately. They are simple and useful tools to assess understanding, clarify doubts, and reinforce learning. A Concept Checking Question (CCQ) is a question, or a series of questions…
Google Keep is a free, web-based note-taking app that allows users to create, edit, and share notes. It can also be a great tool for teachers. Here are a few things you can do with the tool: These are some of the features of the tool. However, I want to highlight one feauture that you’ll…
2 AI tools to create lessons for your learners Some believe AI tools are creepy, some believe they are just tools. They’ve been with us for a couple of years and now we are witnessing how they are improving. There was a time in the past when I started discovering Web 2.0 tools to use…
One of the most problematic areas while studying English is learning vocabulary. There are some vocabulary games I’ve already written on this blog but I’ve compiled a few more here as these games may help remembering new vocabulary by repetition. So here is the list of games that can be adapted to any level and…
As a language teacher, I try to find fun and engaging activities that can help my students improve their speaking skills. Here is an activity I’ve tried recently with my 1-on-1 student. However, it can be done in the class as a warm-up, filler, or energizer or even to revise grammar such as gerunds. I’ve…
Recently I’ve been busy giving a lot of feedback and there are times I really find it very challenging. Reading a lot of papers is hard work. However, the content of the feedback is more challenging than reading the students’ papers. That’s why I just want to focus on it for a while and in…
Understanding the Pros and Cons of ChatGPT People have been writing, talking, tweeting about ChatGPT. Some are concerned, some are happy to use it as a tool. I even see on Twitter that many speakers at conferences started to talk about it and I’ve been playing with it for a while and thinking about writing…
In my previous blog post, I wrote about Substack and Canva as newsletter creation tools. I think they can be a powerful tool in the English language classroom. By getting creative and thinking outside the box, we can use newsletters to improve our students’ language skills and keep them engaged in the classroom. Here are…
In this post, I will write about two tools that can be used to create newsletters. Substack is an online platform. It allows writers to send digital newsletters directly to subscribers.Subtrack is free but authors can decide to make subscription to their newsletter free or paid. You can use Subtrack as a blogging platform too….
Today in my reading class, we played a vocabulary game before we started doing the reading activities. Students enjoyed the game a lot and when I gave them a vocabulary exercise at the end of the lesson, they managed to complete it with ease. Here is the game: List the words you want to pre-teach….
Some ‘cool’ speaking, grammar and vocabulary activities Mingling activities can be fun, mingling activities can also be a burden. Some of us love them, some of us hate them. Even during PD sessions, conferences, etc when the trainer, speaker wants us to stand up and mingle around, we tend to sulk. Well, bearing all these…
