An Engaging Alternative for Chain Stories A fun conditional activity can completely change the energy in a grammar lesson. Grammar doesn’t have to mean drills and gap-fills. This activity combines logic, storytelling, and collaboration in a challenge that will get your learners thinking and speaking in conditionals. What’s the idea? Here is an activity I…
How to Design Warmers in Grammar Lessons That Actually Work When teaching grammar, context is everything. We want our students to see language as a tool for communication, not just a set of rules to memorize. That’s why presenting grammar within a meaningful context—through a reading or listening exercise, a short video, or a real-life…
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…
Diffit is an amazing tool. It saves teachers time by helping them create personalized resources that are just right for each student’s needs. With Diffit, teachers have the flexibility to create their own resources or use articles and videos from the internet to generate exercises. ( it also provides sources from the internet that you…
Playing with ChatGPT to write stories. While playing with ChatGPT, I tried writing a story with it. I wrote the first sentence and then I told it to add its sentence to continue the story logically. I told ChatGPT that it can only add one sentence at a time. It was really interesting to…
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…
Why are podcasts a good idea? When I see someone with earphones, I assume they are listening to music. I think it’s normal for someone from “Walkman” generation. However, music is not always the choice for teenagers. I’ve noticed recently that lots of young people are also listening to podcasts while walking, commuting, cooking, or…
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…
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…
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…
