I spent some time attending courses at FutureLearn this summer and I found them very useful and inspiring. As the coming academic year will most probably be a more hybrid system, these courses will be helpful to you too. So if you haven’t attended them, have a look at those courses:
Teaching Young Learners Online
Improvisations part 2 Sometimes I adapt activities from TV shows, games, etc. The following activity is from a drama group called ‘Mahser-i Cumbus’. While watching their performance, I usually find great ideas for my classes. It sounds a bit confusing but it really is fun. Student A stands up and mimes. While miming she…
Here is a very quick interactive activity for the online classes. Write some correct and some grammatically wrong sentences on Jamboard. Arrange pages for the teams according to the size of your class. Tell your students that they will sort the sentences as correct or wrong in breakout rooms in teams. Here is the link…
I’m very excited about the new feature of Quizizz. It now allows teachers to prepare lessons on Quizizz. You can prepare your whole lesson there; warmers, tutorials, explanations, reading passages and then if you like to ask a question, add a poll, you can do so. It still has the ‘gaming’ option. You can…
Suddenly we all went online.. The techy, the old school we are all on the same boat, trying to sail safely to the shore. Language teaching will not be complete with student interaction. We need to find ways to make students more productive instead of keeping them in front of the screens pretending they are…
I realised I mostly wrote about quick games, fillers or warmers that may help the teachers to motivate the students or change the phase or the pace of a lesson. I believe these activities are great to present and practice a new language. During the activities, students will be more involved, enthused and eager to do…
Wordwall is one of the platforms that I’ve been using since we went online. The idea is simple sign up and There are really cool templates. You can create an activity on a template but then you can switch the templates if you want. You can also print the activities. I usually assign the activity…
