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Interactive Grammar Practice: Collaborative Storytelling with ChatGPT
Byevasimkesyan October 26, 2023

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 see how the story was going….

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Revisiting Grammar
Byevasimkesyan April 24, 2016

May is round the corner. This means another school is about to end. Here you can find some revision games and activities that you’d like to use. When I’m 65 (to revise tenses, time clauses) Team your students Prepare small cards, on small cards write random numbers such as 18, 22, 56, 38, etc. Put…

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Getting Ready to Write A Story
Byevasimkesyan April 30, 2014

Level: All Age: All Target Language : Narrative Tenses, Adjectives to describe emotions, feelings, etc. Give each student a handout with the chart below. Play the sound effects you chose Ask the students to fill in the following chart What do…

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10 Songs to Teach Past Simple and Past Continuous Tense
Byevasimkesyan October 30, 2013

Without music, life would be a mistake. Friedrich Nietzsche These days I’m dealing with the tenses with all levels so I decided to group the songs according to the tenses. As I’m focused on Past Simple and past Continuous now, I’ve started from them. When I prepare the lessons, I’ll also add them. Because you…

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Song Lesson ~ Fairy Tale
Byevasimkesyan October 15, 2013

I haven’t shared any song lessons for a long time. Here is a new one. I was looking for a song for Simple Past and I realized this can be an option. Still not sure if I’ll do it in class next week. Fairy tale is a cute song from Eurovision Song Contest. The song…

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When I was on Holiday :)
Byevasimkesyan June 21, 2012

Level: Any Materials: power point, images of holiday places Target language: Past tenses Ask students to create a 2-slide powerpoint. On one slide they will upload a photo they have taken from a holiday. On the second slide, they will write a short text describing the picture. They may answer the following questions to write…

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Drilling with bookr
Byevasimkesyan November 17, 2010

Using drills or drill like activities will sometimes save us. However it is up to the teacher to turn it into something more enjoyable. We revised Past Simple Tense and past Continuous Tense last week and while doing this I felt hopless and then I decided to make them write as many sentences as they…

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Old techniques die hard
Byevasimkesyan November 12, 2010

I think most of you will agree with me that drilling can be boring and it is very old-fashioned. It is mechanical and it doesn’t promote any critical and creative thinking. However, don’t you ever think they work with certain classes, students. I couldn’t catch yesterday’s eltchat but as I followed from the tweets, it…

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