I found this activity hidden in one of my idea notebooks a few minutes ago while trying to organize my files. Ask students to write a question on a piece of paper. Tell them to fold it down and pass it to the next student. The next students will also write a question and fold…
Beatlesmania… How should I start? Welll… No introduction is needed for this post. I love Beatles 🙂 I love using their songs in my lessons. Below I added some links which I had bookmarked for future use. I hope they will inspire us in the new school year. My Beatlesmania Links 1. 10 Stories Behind…
During the Olympics I will not be able to do any lessons in the class as we started our summer holiday but there will be friends around the world that they will have classes while the GAMES are happening. You can find some ideas and printables from the following links Eslflow English for games Create…
I’m so much exhausted these days. There are many thing at school that we have to do. Our Comenius partners visit us next week. Actually it is very exciting to plan everything. We have to deal with arrivals, presentations, meetings, day tips, etc. We are even planning a Europe Day celebration on May 9th. I’m…
It is mid-term break now. At the moment I’m enjoying myself reading blogathon posts and doing some preperation for the first week of the school. February will be a hectic month and I have to pre-plan everything. Reported Speech is the grammar point that we will study but I want to challenge them with something…
On Tuesday this week, I had my first lesson of the new year after the Christmas break. I wanted to do a session where the students would reflect and make resolutions. I had some wordles(I prepared them for another lesson but hadn’t used) with quotes and proverbs on learning, motivation and acieving goals. I put the…
The following activity was something spontaneous when we did ‘indirect questions’ but then I felt the students still needed practice, something more like a mechanical drill but I was not prepared for more exercises so I did the folllowing. I told mys sts to have 4 slips of paper. On each paper, I told them…
Last week we revised modals with my year 12 students and after doing a lot of exercises, tests, etc ( they are studying for the university entrancre exam and they will take the language exam so they need to master the grammar and the skills as well) I realised they still got confused as most of…
 Here are some activities you can use when teaching descriptions. Characteristics: Agree on a list of 5 people known to students Dictate words and phrases which describe the people chosen Students write the descriptions you dictate beneath the name of the person they think is referred to. Rights/ Wrongs Choose something to describe. Tell…
Warmers, Fillers and 1st Week Activities The theme of 24th edition of the efl/esl/ell blog carnival is Warmers, Fillers and 1st Week Activities. As in some parts of the world we are excited to meet our new students, I’m hoping that we will have some different activities to start the year other than the ones we…
 The original activity is described here and the poem ‘Go and Open the Door’ by Miroslav Holub is here. This is a very powerful poem and I think it will work really well with teenagers and adults on the first week of the term. Here is a variation with the poem for the new comers….
 Don’t you sometimes find yourself thinking ‘Why are my students lazy?’ or ‘Why don’t they want to learn?’ Big problems to deal with, aren’t they? So why not starting to find out more about your students by asking questions considering to make your problems solvable? How? Well, instead of complaining ‘Why are they sooooo…
