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…
image credit #eltpics, @ij64 As a matter of fact I had forgotten this song until I listened to it again at the opening ceremony of the London Olympics and for a while I kept hearing it in my mind and then I realized I can use it in the class as well. When I listened to…
I’d like to share a guided writing activity that I adapted for my classes. Give students a card and ask them to read the instructions. Tell them they are going to invent a story about what happened to the characters on their cards. Give them the pre-prepared questions and ask them to answer the questions…
ZooBurst is a digital storytelling tool that lets you create your own 3D pop-up books by uploading pictures and adding text. ZooBurst is also a very secure tool for young learners as its target users are teachers and students. If you choose the premium account you can have a class dashboard and control your…
Two years ago at a plenary talk JJ Wilson told that we enter the class with everything we put in our luggage. Looking at my past I completely agree with him. Through the years we pack a suitcase adding little pebbles every time we repack. The suitcase we are given at our birth is not…
The Sound of Silence is a very powerful song and although it is from a very remote past for our teens, they love it when they hear. When I do the song in the class, I choose images from the web. Just type ‘silence’ and choose the images you want to use in your lessons….
