Welcome to the 37th ELT Blog Carnival. Many thanks for the colleagues who shared their lessons here and Many thanks to my PLN who spread the news of the carnival when I tweeted or FBed about it. OK, Folks… Let’s begin … Do you hear the merry sounds, songs, giggles of a happy moment from…
One of the stories I love revisiting is Eveline from Dubliners. This year with my year 12 students we read it again. I’d like to share the follow-up activities we did. I grouped the students and assigned them with one task. They chose one and created the followings. FOLLOW-UP 1. Adapt Eveline to 21st century…
I blogged about Google apps that I was planning to use this year but while chatting with some colleagues the other day, I realized there are still a lot of people who need help with some digital tools that may help reduce their workload. I used to email lesson plans and worksheets to myself in order…
Here are some great drama sites for English teachers. Drama in the ESL Classroom is a resource site for EFL, ESL teachers who are interested in using drama in their teaching. The site contains explanations on drama techniques and links to other sites. Classroom Lesson Plans a great sites full of links to very useful…
Without music, life would be a mistake. Friedrich Nietzsche All these songs can be used as a simple gap fill activity, but they can also work as models for writing similar songs with the same grammar pattern, or as a way to talk about stories and the past in general. Here is my playlist, and just…
Today’s learners are way too visual than us. That’s why we tend to decorate our classes with posters, notes, post-it notes, charts, etc. They are so used to seeing everything by googling that if you try to describe it using words they understand nothing. I came across with MapCrunch today and I thought it can…
In this post, I want to share 5 cool literature sites. VirtualLit is an awesome site any teacher or a student who is interested in literature will love very much. VirtualLit is a step by step multimedia tutorial for a number of poems, novels, short stories and plays. Teaching Literature is a wiki dedicated to teaching…
Yet another promising weekend is waiting for the educators all around the world. I’m thrilled to present at 4th Reform Symposium. Have a look at the list of the presentations here I’ll talk about the e-project we started last year at school. My students worked in groups, searched, read and then we organized 3…
This can be played either with past and future time clauses. Prepare cards. Choose two different colors for the cards. Say pink and yellow. On pink cards, write an activity such as wash the dishes, make the bed, etc. On yellow cards write a conjunction that is used in time clauses. Divide the class into…
We all know that while working on projects, flipping our classrooms using Google apps are great such as the folder, presentation, form and the spreadsheet but if you check, you will find more for your own needs. These are the ones that I’m planning to use next year Google templates you will find a suitable…
Welcome to the 33rd ELT carnival. The theme is Using Music and Songs in EFL Classes and today I’m happy to introduce a wonderful album to you. If you are ready grab a cup of coffee (hot or cold), put the record on and enjoy … Here we begin SIDE 1 From Vicky Loras’s Blog by…
Can dreams come true? Can a teacher touch the lives of students?Do unbelievable success stories exist in only movies, chicken soup stories? Can children in slums be saved and educated as the kids who have more resources? What does a music teacher need to form an orchestra, a fully talented class of kids or just…
