1. Each person is given a sheet of paper with a series of instructions to follow. Each student’s instructions should be different. Tell them to stand up and mingle until you stop them. Then ask them to share their answers. Your instructions can be as “Find someone who …” 2. Give each student a post-it note….
I am not a fan of online games. I don’t play any but my son spends most of his free time playing online games. I have lots of students who do the same and when the subject is online games, even the quietest one starts to speak. A few years ago I had three students…
When you tell your students “You three work together”, there will probably be some among the majority who will complain and tell that they don’t want to work with A or B in that group. They will sulk, they won’t contribute, isolate themselves or even worse they won’t let the other members work. However; if…
This was not the first train the trainer course I attended but may be the magic was the magicians I (we) met there. I attended SLTEP, a two-week train the trainer program ran by Sabanci University School of Languages. With our amazing tutors, Deniz Kurtoglu Eken, Meral Guceri and Sharon Celtek, we dived into the…
For this guided collaborative story writing activity, find a photo story, pictures that can be used as sequences or some pictures that can form a story. Make enough copies for your students. Put students in groups. Give each group the 1st picture Tell them to brainstorm anything that comes into their minds first and…
AnswerGarden is a new tool that you can use in the classroom for barinstorming or getting feedback. You don’t have to sign up, but when you create a poll or a question to think. The website asks you to put a password on it and then you can decide how long it will be open….
1. Writing chain stories or even writing chain poems. If you decide to do the chain poem writing activity, then give them a skeleton If I drink coffee, I’ll stay awake tonight If I stay awake tonight, I’ll fall asleep in the morning. And if I fall asleep in the morning, My teacher will…
Here are some great drama sites for English teachers. Drama in the ESL Classroom is a resource site for EFL, ESL teachers who are interested in using drama in their teaching. The site contains explanations on drama techniques and links to other sites. Classroom Lesson Plans a great sites full of links to very useful…
Without music, life would be a mistake. Friedrich Nietzsche All these songs can be used as a simple gap fill activity, but they can also work as models for writing similar songs with the same grammar pattern, or as a way to talk about stories and the past in general. Here is my playlist, and just…
This can be played either with past and future time clauses. Prepare cards. Choose two different colors for the cards. Say pink and yellow. On pink cards, write an activity such as wash the dishes, make the bed, etc. On yellow cards write a conjunction that is used in time clauses. Divide the class into…
We all know that while working on projects, flipping our classrooms using Google apps are great such as the folder, presentation, form and the spreadsheet but if you check, you will find more for your own needs. These are the ones that I’m planning to use next year Google templates you will find a suitable…
Welcome to the 33rd ELT carnival. The theme is Using Music and Songs in EFL Classes and today I’m happy to introduce a wonderful album to you. If you are ready grab a cup of coffee (hot or cold), put the record on and enjoy … Here we begin SIDE 1 From Vicky Loras’s Blog by…
