image from here I’m thinking about a new challenge. This year thanks to twitter and my PLN, I and my students experienced wonderful things. We had global projects and skype chats now I’m thinking to move it one step further. Sometimes we organise debates in the class. I thought maybe we…
Beauty is a fat black woman walking the fields pressing a breezed hibiscus to her cheek while the sun lights up her feet Beauty is a fat black woman riding the waves drifting in happy oblivion while the sea turns back to hug her shape Grace Nicholls Since Jeremy Harmer read this…
From time to time, I do this fun activity with my students and we have fun and laughter in the class. On slips of papers write some sentences. (or tell your students to write a suggestion, regret, wish, advise, exclamation, etc) Put the slips of papers in an envelope. Prepare index cards. On each card, 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…
In my month themes I wrote I’d like to do something related with the Oscars as we all know the nominees now. Today I assigned my students to prepare small talks on it. For these short presentations my students will have 3 minutes to talk. I prepare a rubric to mark their presentations too. They…
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…
