1. STORIES Students listen to a piece of music. Preferably something in an other language or instrumental. While listening, they just write the words that go with the melody. After listening, ask what they have listed. A student writes all the words on the board. Then they write a paragraph with the words on the…
created at www.tagxedo.com Flashcards were the most important visuals of EFL classrooms, and they are now widely available online. You can find great sites here and here. You can always create your own material so you can create your flashcards by cutting up magazine pictures or writing the words and definitions on the cards or…
I really love ‘Go and Open the Door‘ by Miroslav Holub and when I come across with it in Creative Poetry Writing with a great activity and as we were doing conditionals, even if, as long as and some other conjunctions I wanted to do the activity with my students. I’ll quickly summarize it. Tell your students…
Reading Tara Benwell’s blog post was so much fun that I immediately wanted to create my own list. See my kids grow up I want to see them grow up and find the right job and the person for them:-) Learn Italian I have always wanted to learn Italian but I can’t find the time,…
Yesterday I explained how to reduce relative clauses into phrases to my 11 graders and they were all confused. Then I distributed the handouts I prepared for them to exercise and asked them to rewrite the sentences. While doing the exercises they were bored and they couldn’t get the idea. Today I played a game…
