Reading Activities Spiced Up with Web 2.0 for IATEFL TD< JOINT SIG EVENT
You can see some student examples from here and also from the links of my class blogs. You can download the handout.
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An Unprepared Storytelling Session
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…
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Third ELT Students’ Conference
I will be at Boğaziçi University tomorrow for the Third Elt Students’ conference. Unfortunately I’ve missed todays sessions as I had to be at school for Teacher-Parent meeting. I’m looking forward to being there tomorrow as it is organised by a group of ELT students from Bilgi and Boğaziçi University. As far as I follow,…
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Another Great Conference, BESL 2011
At Bahçeşehir University, on May 14th, I had the chance to listen to Stephen Krashen, who was the person on my linguistics notes, PD courses I attended and there he was talking about his acquisition theory. I’m not going to tell about the whole event as I was there only in the morning and rushed to…
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reading | creative tasks | creative writing | critical thinking | elt | esl
Fun with Class Readers 3
image taken from here This is the 3rd and the last post of graded-reader-ideas. If you want to add another activity to this list, I will be very happy. 21. Tell students to list all the interesting words, phrases and expressions or all the new words, phrases and expressions from the book and create a…
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Fun with Class Readers 2
11. Tell the students to choose one of the characters and write about his/her life 10 years from the ending of the story. 12. Tell students to create a quiz on the story. They have to include vocabulary questions, comprehension questions, discussion questions, etc 13. Ask them to create a word poster of the book…
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Fun with Class Readers 1
If you are using class readers, short stories or novels with your students, here are some ideas. Some of them have been used and some of them has just downed on me while writing this post. I have some more ideas and will add them later. I’m sure you have also fun ideas (For example,…
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A Poetry Lesson
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…
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Reading Authentic
Reading is one of the activities I love doing. However, students don’t usually like it as they haven’t built a habit for reading or they think they don’t read in their daily lives. When I ask about their preferences, they mostly say they don’t read anything. Of course, they do read. We know that but they don’t…
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Joyce in Class
Joyce is one of the most difficult authors. It is not easy to understand him so he is not usually in high school teachers’ lists. However, if you have a class who loves reading short stories, you can give it a try to Dubliners. I’m not saying that we can read all the stories but…
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My homework part 2
As I said before, I really enjoyed this blog reading task partly because I love doing homework 🙂 and it allows me to discover more. If you like, make a cup of fresh coffee and do some extensive reading. I’ll start with Murphy’s Law for EFL teachers from Natasa’s blog. Natasa Bozic Grojic writes how…