Google Forms is one of the tools that I’ve been using a lot since the pandemic started. In this video I’ve shared a tip.
Write the topic in the center of your Jamboard. Share the link with your students. Set time limit. Ask them to write anything that comes into their mind related to the topic on the sticky notes. Once they’ve finish brainstorming their ideas, duplicate the Jamboard page, add advantages and disadvantages as headings, ask your students…
Some of the activities I wrote need to be updated because of the online teaching. I had written a few posts about using photos in class. Today I updated one of them. Here is a caption writing activity for the virtual classroom. The previous posts are here , here and here Tell students to take a photo…
I’ve just discovered this great tool called THINKIO. It’s a free and simple tool which enables teachers to share exercises with students, view and mark online. Upload your exercise as a pdf or an image file and share the link with your students. Once your students write their names, do and save their homework,…
Schools started. I have new classes and I have classes that I know from last year. We started working hard. We, as the English Department of our school, prepared lessons to motivate our students. With my year 12 students, who will graduate and take the university exam, we read ‘Go and Open the Door’, a…
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: How to Teach Online…
I love using photos when teaching Present Continuous Tense. They provide a lot of opportunities to use the structure meaningfully. In this post I want to describe an activity for the online classes. Choose a painting with a lot of people and activities. ( I used ‘A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande…
