1. Choose a poem to read with your students. 2. Write the title on the board and ask students to predict what the poem is about. 3. Divide the class in groups. 4. Give each group a copy of a word cloud you prepared previously. 5. Ask students to write a poem using the words…
Lemon Tree: Activities for Prepositions, Present Continuous, and Adjectives Lemon Tree truly is one of those songs that keeps giving, no matter which structure you want to focus on. I was reading Vicky Saumell’s Eltchat summary on Teaching English through songs in the digital age (part 3 of 4): Specific songs and their uses, I…
Find a song in another language which has an English version. Here is an idea for ‘Il faut savoir’ by Charles Aznavour. The song may be more suitable for adults but the activity can be applied to other songs as well.Play the song Ask students to try to guess what the song can be about…
I must confess one of the skills that I neglect is listening. However, it should be one of the most important ones. By improving listening, the learners learn to train themselves to understand the native speakers or other speakers of English. I think this is because, it is easier to check, assess grammar, vocabulary or…
This is an activity I did with one of my classes last week. Choose a soundtrack of a movie (preferably an instrumental piece) Tell them that piece of music is from a movie Ask the students to relax and listen to the music When the music is finished tell them they are going to listen…
Why do we use pre activities before a reading text or a speaking topic? 1. to raise learners’ awareness 2. to wake them up 3. to generate ideas 4. to learn the necessary vocabulary that may appear in the text or conversation 5. to stimulate discussion Why do we use post activities after the reading…
Types of Dictations for EFL Classrooms I started a ‘train the trainer’ course in January. At today’s session, we looked into some listening activities and dictation techniques. As a teacher, I have never liked doing dictation in my class. It’s something I neglected. The only one I use is the wall dictation AKA the running dictation…
