I haven’t updated my blog for ages and I feel a bit guilty about it. However, I have some good reasons. I’d like to share something really important for me with you. I just started my own business, a Thought Shop = Düşünce Dükkanı in Turkish (as I also love to call it). Dream2Edu…
I’d like to share a quick activity I’ve done with my students. After reading a short story or a novel in the class or if the students are assigned to read their own choices, you can use this activity. Ask the students to write Twitter bios for each character, (or the ones they’ve chosen) in…
If you are flipping your classroom and trying to find tools to record your lessons, then have a look at Quick Time Player. If you are a Mac user, you already have Quick Time Player installed on your computer. Go to Launch Pad Click on Quick Time Player and open it. Go to File and…
Using photos in EFL Classroom, part 3 We are all stories, right? We tell a new story, the same story, another story all the time and we do it in the class too. Today I’m going to mention activities that can be used to create new stories for the theme “Using Photos in EFL Classes”….
Padlet Galleries If you are working on a “theme” that you think can be photographed easily, you can ask your students take photos and add them to the Padlet wall you’ve created for that specific “theme” and ask students to write what made them to take the photo, how they felt about that photo. You…
“Photography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it still.” Dorothea Lange Visuals are useful and powerful tools to enhance the use of language, combining the images and the concepts they refer in the minds of the learners. Photos, as all visual images, also encourage the learners to predict and guess the…
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…
In my previous post, I mentioned that in Istanbul, there would be great events for teachers who believe in professional development this spring. The first one is over and the second one is about to happen. I’ll present at this conference and I’ll also blog about the sessions. Yes, I’m talking about EdTechIst, which…
AGE: ALL LEVEL: A1, BEGINNER MATERIALS: HEART SHAPED PAPER CUT-OUTS Using paper, prepare heart-shaped cut-outs, as shown below. Give students the handout. Ask them to complete the categories with the given words, phrases. Or you can prepare your own categories according to your students’ likes. A piece of cake, a piece of chocolate, a…
Istanbul will host great events this spring. One of them is Educational Technology Summit, which aims to bring together educators, institutions, parents, students and teachers to discuss and learn about updates about technology. Things which will be discussed at the summit are and why should you attend And check the summit website to see the speakers and…
