If you are looking for songs to teach Past Simple and Past Continuous, music is one of the easiest ways to bring these two tenses together in a natural context. Students hear the contrast between an action that was already in progress and one that interrupted it, without needing a grammar chart to explain it….
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…
Can dreams come true? Can a teacher touch the lives of students?Do unbelievable success stories exist in only movies, chicken soup stories? Can children in slums be saved and educated as the kids who have more resources? What does a music teacher need to form an orchestra, a fully talented class of kids or just…
image credit #eltpics, @ij64 As a matter of fact I had forgotten this song until I listened to it again at the opening ceremony of the London Olympics and for a while I kept hearing it in my mind and then I realized I can use it in the class as well. When I listened to…
I’d like to share a guided writing activity that I adapted for my classes. Give students a card and ask them to read the instructions. Tell them they are going to invent a story about what happened to the characters on their cards. Give them the pre-prepared questions and ask them to answer the questions…
Two years ago at a plenary talk JJ Wilson told that we enter the class with everything we put in our luggage. Looking at my past I completely agree with him. Through the years we pack a suitcase adding little pebbles every time we repack. The suitcase we are given at our birth is not…
The Sound of Silence is a very powerful song and although it is from a very remote past for our teens, they love it when they hear. When I do the song in the class, I choose images from the web. Just type ‘silence’ and choose the images you want to use in your lessons….
Before posting goal #1, I’m writing about goal#2 How to Avoid Teacher Burnout? Cambridge Dictionary online defines burnout as extreme tiredness or a feeling of not being able to work any more, caused by working too hard. Teacher burnout is real. Whether we realize or not, we suffer from burnout from time to time. It…
Wikipedia defines Information graphics or infographics as graphic visual representations of information, data or knowledge intended to present complex information quickly and clearly. They are great for today’s visual learners. How can infographics be used in language classes? Both teachers and students can create it I think we can make the list longer according to…
I used this song with my students last year. I combined some of the activities from here and added some follow-up writing activities. 1.First I asked my students who we thank in our lives. I wrote some phrases on the board to help them to express themselves. I gave them post-it notes and I divided them…
