Improvisations part 2 Sometimes I adapt activities from TV shows, games, etc. The following activity is from a drama group called ‘Mahser-i Cumbus’. While watching their performance, I usually find great ideas for my classes. It sounds a bit confusing but it really is fun. Student A stands up and mimes. While miming she makes…
With my grade 10 students, we are revising the simple present tense at the moment and while planning what I’ll do, I listed some activities that I used in the previous years as warmers or fillers. I’ll be happy if you also add your favourite Present Simple Tense activities here A DAY IN THE LIFE…
Beauty is a fat black woman walking the fields pressing a breezed hibiscus to her cheek while the sun lights up her feet Beauty is a fat black woman riding the waves drifting in happy oblivion while the sea turns back to hug her shape Grace Nicholls Since Jeremy Harmer read this poem at…
I realised I mostly wrote about quick games, fillers or warmers that may help the teachers to motivate the students or change the phase or the pace of a lesson. I believe these activities are great to present and practice a new language. During the activities, students will be more involved, enthused and eager to do…
Life is a lot like jazz… it’s best when you improvise — George Gershwin Gershwin was right. Sometimes in the classroom, you just improvise — and magic happens. A Classroom Activity Where You Just Improvise Sometimes my mind doesn’t allow me to enjoy the moment. Last week a group of actors from a drama club…
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 board….
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 you can use…
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 with…
When we feel that students are bored, we tend to change the pace and move to a more energising activity. This one is something like that. However, I use it as a gap filler or an fun activity after I introduce the new topic. It sounds a bit childish, though it always works with…
