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…
“I have a mixed ability class and some of the students refuse to respond to the lessons whereas some are highly motivated and some of them join us when they feel they can do” Isn’t this a common problem for teachers? People learn better when they want to learn. I agree that teachers can only…
Flipped Classroom, Blended Learning, techy tools … These have been in our lives for a few years. Everyday we come across with a new tool, a new site a new idea that we can use in our classes. I just discovered the following tools and I’m planning to give them a try in the New…
Vintage Everyday is a site I came across via Read.Now.Learn.Go, a fabulous site updated almost everyday, full of links to very interesting sites that you can use in the class. I was thinking about an activity that my students could do before we start working on narrative tenses in the class and this is my plan…
I haven’t taken any blog challenges so far this year and a dear friend who I first met on twitter and then in real life, Carol Goodey tagged me for a very challenging 🙂 blog challenge. It looks difficult to find 11 of everything but I’ll try to do my best. Let’s see what the…
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…
Starfall itself is an amazing site but if you click on this link, you will be taken to an amazing list of activities and games. All About Me is a fun game on starfall that your young learner will create a character and hear how to say the words. On toytheatre.com you can find games, stories…
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…
If you are looking for songs to teach Past Simple and Past Continuous, music is one of the easiest ways to bring these two tenses together in a natural context. Students hear the contrast between an action that was already in progress and one that interrupted it, without needing a grammar chart to explain it….
