A Step-by-Step Guide Creating ELT games with Claude AI was something I stumbled into while preparing an exit test for my A1 adult evening class. I wanted something more engaging than a worksheet. That’s when I thought — what if I asked Claude to turn it into a game? What followed was one of those…
Art and creativity with AI came together in an unexpected way during one of my reading classes. We were working on an article about art, and I started the lesson with a few warm-up questions: What is art? What do you think about art? The students had some interesting ideas, and their answers set the…
A Letter to the Future is one of those activities that I have been thinking about for a while without actually trying it yet. It sits in that category of ideas that feel right, not just as a grammar task, but as something genuinely meaningful for students. Why A Letter to the Future Works This…
A Writing Lesson Idea With A Touch of AI Creativity. Teaching descriptions can be boring both for the teacher and the students. By adding creativity and fun, we can transform this into an engaging classroom activity. I was playing with some text-to image tools and then I’ve come up with the following activity. Please feel…
I haven’t been posting any song lessons for a long time. I’ve prepared this for my 1-on-1 lesson. Hope you’ll like it 🙂 “Sorry Seems to Be the Hardest Word” WARM UP Can you apologize easily? Why do you apologize? Have you ever experienced a situation where saying sorry was difficult? When it is difficult…
Energizers for online and hybrid classrooms can make a real difference to how a lesson feels. My main aim in this post is to find ways to make the online classroom feel more like our usual face-to-face classes. I’ll add some websites and apps, but I wanted to avoid the quiz-makers and game-makers you’ve probably…
If you don’t know where you are going, any road will get you there. Lewis Carroll From today on, I’m going to add lesson ideas that can be used in our virtual classrooms. Here is a writing activity to revise tenses. This writing activity uses an empty street photo as a prompt to help students…
Assign a student to stop you. Start counting the alphabet silently. When the student stops, you write the last letter on the board. Tell them they will write a word beginning with that letter. Once they’ve written their word, tell them they will continue adding new words starting with the second letter of each word….
You feel tired and have no energy to plan a lesson for tomorrow, Your students have been too fast to finish the tasks you planned for this lesson, You see they sulk, they feel bored or tired and can’t understand the lesson, then why not roll a dice and let the fun begin. What can…
September is here and another school year is on its way. I’m just enjoying the last few lazy days reading and planning ahead. I’m reading “The Little Paris Bookshop” by Nina George at the moment. I loved the book. Not only for the plot, not only it is set in Paris along the River Seine…
Using photos in EFL Classroom, part 3 We are all stories, right? We tell a new story, the same story, another story all the time and we do it in the class too. Today I’m going to mention activities that can be used to create new stories for the theme “Using Photos in EFL Classes”….
“Let us go singing as far as we go: the road will be less tedious.” Virgil Choices are important in our lives. Sometimes there are times we regret, there are times we pray for what we’ve chosen. I have a group of mixed-ability students in grade 11 studying mostly languages. Some of them are not…
