After I listened to ”7 Types of Rest That Every Person Needs”, I decided to prepare a lesson on it. I tried to simplify it using Rewordify but it didn’t work. I tried to simpliy it a bit changing a few words and also I shortened the speech too. However, I used Rewordify to…
A few years ago I was able to recall phone numbers, important dates and names easily. I never felt the need to jot down dates, shopping items on my agenda. However, things are not the same anymore. Perhaps I can easily put the blame on my smart phone which does all the job for…
I’ve just come across this fancy new portal created by the Oxford University, Oxplore. It is a gem. I will just write how it works and how I’ve started using it with my students.The portal aims teenagers. Thus, it is colourful, vivid and eye-catching. It attracts the attention of the visitor. It is easy to…
September 13th is the Roald Dahl day and this year it’s his 100th birthday. Regular readers know that I’m fond of Roald Dahl stories and I love using them in class. I just wanted to bring some links that you’d like to use with your classes. Here the schools are not open yet but I’ll…
I’ll share a quick drama activity I learned from our drama club while performing at an event at school. Put 3 chairs in front of the board. Put labels on the chairs as “sad-1”, “happy-2″,”angry-3” Write some situations on slips of papers and put them in a box. (You are waiting at the bus stop…
Last week, with a group of twelve-year olds we had great fun reading a short story. It was our first meeting so I started with a getting to know activity which came from freshly Leo Selivan’s latests blog post. Kids loved drawing stick figures and introducing themselves in third person. Then we read the story…
I’d like to share a quick activity I’ve done with my students. After reading a short story or a novel in the class or if the students are assigned to read their own choices, you can use this activity. Ask the students to write Twitter bios for each character, (or the ones they’ve chosen) in…
I’d like to share a quick activity that I’m planning to do with my students tomorrow. 1. Tell students to think about the characters in the book/story/novel you’re working on 2. Ask them to prepare a list of characters traits and then ask their friends if the adjectives they chose for these characters are correct or…
I am working with graded readers, short stories and novels with my classes. I was also preparing my talk for TESOL France and looking for some new ideas to share, I designed the following lesson inspired from Chaz Pugliese’s Gossip activity from the book Being Creative. The activity may not sound similar but while reading it, I…
“Let us go singing as far as we go: the road will be less tedious.” Virgil Choices are important in our lives. Sometimes there are times we regret, there are times we pray for what we’ve chosen. I have a group of mixed-ability students in grade 11 studying mostly languages. Some of them are not…
