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Image credit: pixabay I love using songs and I just prepared a lesson with ‘Wonderful Tonight’ as a follow up activity for Present Simple Tense. Here you can find the worksheet for the song. I’m also adding a few more songs that can be used to teach Present Simple Tenses.
Online teaching taught me more in one term than years of regular teaching sometimes do. The first term of our 4-term academic year has just ended. We’ll start a brand new term on Monday. During the 1st term, I’ve tried many things. Some worked well, some didn’t, some needed an update, some needed slight changes….
My guest post on Larry Ferlazzo’s blog My Corona Days’ experience as Guest Post: Teaching An Istanbul English Class Online During The Time Of Corona https://t.co/SmZyPNlXZ5 via @Larryferlazzo — Eva B. (@dream2edu) March 25, 2020
Zoom, an online conferencing tool that can be handy during these crisis days.
Quizizz is a free online tool to create games for your classroom. It enables the teacher to conduct student-paced formative assessments. It is almost similar to all the other Web 2.0 tools. First sign up, then start creating your quiz. Once you create the Quizizz, you can assign it as homework or host it to…
I’d like to introduce you another great tool that you can create content. Visme is yet another versatile tool that you can create powerful visual stories in the form of presentations, infographics and other visual content. It is free. You can checkout this quick video tutorial https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fxAroxawE0U Visme allows you to create various forms of content…
Here is a really cool writing activity you can try with your students. Today we started with some questions written on cards about reading, watching movies, book characters, new trends on social media, etc. Then we read a paragraph about JK Rowling and Harry Potter, why it was a huge success, why we love it,…
Something really annoying happened. I discovered a blog a few days ago. It’s an ELT blog but there was something strange. The site looked exactly the same as A Journey In TEFL. Even in the About page, the writer is me. I immediately asked help from Edublogs because it looks the blog has been written…
I haven’t updated my blog for ages and I feel a bit guilty about it. However, I have some good reasons. I’d like to share something really important for me with you. I just started my own business, a Thought Shop = Düşünce Dükkanı in Turkish (as I also love to call it). Dream2Edu is a…
I’m very happy that my blog has been nominated for the Best Teacher Blog Award. If you are following this blog and would like to support me and my blog, please click on the link and like “A Journey in TEFL” http://edublogawards.com/2014-awards/best-teacher-blog-2014/
Last week, we were reading a text on pyramids and pharaohs and one of my students said, “Let’s go and see it and come back here in the next lesson.” And I said, “OK, we’re just going to walk around the pyramids in Egypt and south America.” Thanks to the IWB and the internet, we…
Without literature, language classes will be boring. I like ways to bring the novels, short stories, poems into the classroom and make my students think about things happening in them. I believe we are pretty lucky because we have so many online resources and texts that we can recommend our students to read. To tell…
