Using Birth Order and Personality Adjectives Years ago, I used to use an activity I shared on my blog called Get into groups according to…. It was always a hit because it got students moving, talking, and reflecting on themselves and it was a great language practice. This week, our course flow included personality adjectives,…
“While I was watching a movie, the electricity went out.” How many times have we seen this sentence in grammar books? It’s a classic for teaching past continuous and past simple. I don’t even know how many times I’ve used it without even thinking—or said things like “Take an umbrella in case it rains” or…
An Engaging Alternative for Chain Stories Grammar can be boring when you just ask the students to do drills, gap-fills or rewriting activities. That’s why challenging students with fun grammar activities could help them produce better. This activity combines logic, storytelling, and collaboration in a fun challenge that will get the learners thinking and speaking…
Creating follow-up tasks with AI In today’s reading class, we worked on an article about art. 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 stage for what turned out to be a really…
Engaging students with creative writing activities helps reinforce grammar in an enjoyable way. Here’s a lesson idea that can be used to revise relative clauses. Activity: A Letter to My Future Self Objective: To practice relative clauses by writing a reflective and imaginative letter. Model Example: Dear future self, I hope you have found a…
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 podcasts are 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 apopologize easily? Why do you apopologize? Have you ever experienced a situation where saying sorry was difficult? When it is difficult…
