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A Drill-like Narrative Writing Activity
We were working on narrative tenses and the writing task of the lesson was ‘writing a story’. My class is small and it’s a real mixed-ability class. although it’s small, it sometimes takes very ages for the students to master something. The book we’re using organized the activity very well – first making students to know…
- efl | language is a virus | web 2.0 | writing
Yes ! Language is a virus :)
Have you come across this hilarious site.? “Every day, write a letter that will never be sent to a person who does or does not exist, or to a number of people who do or do not exist.” The sentence I copied and pasted from Language is a Virus is a writing task. Isn’t…
My First Christmas Tree This Year
After studying descriptive adjectives. I told my students to describe each person in their group by choosing an adjective for each letter of their names. They worked eagerly to find lots of positive adjectives to describe their classmates. Then I decided to write the names on post-it notes and design a simple poster for the…
- creative tasks | e-learning | efl | elt | fillers | fun activities | games | gapfillers | ice-breakers | ideas | TEFL | web 2.0 tools
Energizers, warmers, games, follow-ups to make us feel we are teaching face-to-face: Part 1
My main is to write this post is to find ways to make the online classroom more like our usual face-to-face classes. I’ll add some websites and apps but I wanted to avoid the quiz-makers, game-makers, etc. Here you can find what I’ve come up with. Please add more 🙂 1. Start the day with…
- efl | fun | ideas | song lessons
A Bollywood Style Song Lesson
Nowadays there is a TV commercial of a fizzy drink that we talk a lot about. The dances used in the commercial is Bollywood style and we have just come across the original song on YouTube and it was not a surprise to find out that the song was from a Bollywood movie. The lyrics are…
A lesson on a TED Talk: 7 Types of Rest That Every Person Needs
After I listened to ”7 Types of Rest That Every Person Needs”, I decided to prepare a lesson on it. I tried to simplify it using Rewordify but it didn’t work. I tried to simpliy it a bit changing a few words and also I shortened the speech too. However, I used Rewordify to…