What if the gap between what your students write and what an AI generates is the best language lesson you’ve never planned? Last week, I was playing around with AI to create images. I wasn’t very good at with image tools initially. I described a city scene and the image was dull. But then…
As the year comes to an end, many language classrooms naturally turn to New Year’s resolutions. I actually love New Year’s resolutions: asking students to make lists, make promises to themselves, and draw road maps. However, over the years, I’ve noticed a shift in my own thinking. I still dream, plan, and imagine my future,…
An Engaging Alternative for Chain Stories Grammar can be boring when you just ask the students to do drills, gap-fills or rewriting activities. That’s why challenging students with fun grammar activities could help them produce better. This activity combines logic, storytelling, and collaboration in a fun challenge that will get the learners thinking and speaking…
“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…
Flipped Classroom, Blended Learning, techy tools … These have been in our lives for a few years. Everyday we come across with a new tool, a new site a new idea that we can use in our classes. I just discovered the following tools and I’m planning to give them a try in the New…
