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….
With my year 10 students we will start reading Jamaica Inn (level 5) and as a pre-reading task I prepared the glog and at the lab they researched and answered the questions. They are very curious about the story now and they are looking forward to reading it. http://www.glogster.com/flash/flash_loader.swf?ver=1300206555 I’d like to hear your ideas…
image taken here As Andrew Wright said ‘We are all stories’ and because of that stories are very important in our lives. Once my daughter (when she was very little) told me that ’ a storyteller living in the sky reads our stories to us every day and we act in…
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…
Next week the 1st term ends and I want my students to read books so I decided to give them a book to read and some tasks to do. I uploaded the handout to box.net. http://www.box.net/embed/boazh9qt4s1m4r8.swf I should thank my PLN for some of the ideas @sarah_SKB @ale0715 @Bianka_C @ l_missbossy My students started emailing their tasks and will…
image created via Add Letters 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…
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…
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…
With my intermediate and upper-intermediate students,we read readers in the classroom. They are abridged but with some activities, we try to analyze the texts as much as possible. This is how I assigned them after we read The Grapes of Wrath 1. Choose a character and write a description 2. Write a book review. 3. Write…
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…
