I’ve decided to prepare song lessons that I can use in class. I’m planning to share them regularly. If you love using songs in the class, please visit the blog for a new song lesson every week. I will also be very happy to hear your ideas.
A new song lesson
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Find a song in another language which has an English version. Here is an idea for ‘Il faut savoir’ by Charles Aznavour. The song may be more suitable for adults but the activity can be applied to other songs as well. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vLbxek5IbB0&w=480&h=385] Play the song Ask students to try to guess what the song…
“Time is the longest distance between two places.” ― Tennessee Williams, The Glass Menagerie I’ve been doing some creative writing workshops with a group of young learners. They love writing stories, poems but they still have problems with the tenses so today we revised them. As they love writing and hate drill-like exercises, I prepared…
We love playing games in the class and quiz-show type games are very popular in our classrooms. We have the PowerPoint format of most games but if we want to change certain things on them to adapt the game for our own needs, we spend long hours and sometimes we give up. I’ve just come…
Jamboard is an online interactive whiteboard tool that can easily be used to in distance learning. The App can easily be reached from Google Drive. Click on Jamboard and you’re ready to create your first board. Tap the orange + to start. Now you are ready to use the board. Choose the background. I really…
Beginning a lesson with a warm-up activity has many advantages. I can just list some as waking up tired students breaking the ice encouraging students to talk and think on the subject allowing students to settle down and prepare for the lesson previewing or revising a particular language area introducing the topic providing humour starting the lesson with a smile…
This week I’m teaching Past Simple Tense so I decided to add a creative activity where students will force themselves to use the vocabulary they have learned so far. I wrote a short story in past tense but this activity can be easily adapted to all the grammar topics. So here is my story:…
Dear Eva
Thank you for your nice work.I have attended your webinar for British counsil since then I am trying to follow your blog.
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Thanks Sevgi 🙂