I used this song with my students last year. I combined some of the activities from here and added some follow-up writing activities. 1.First I asked my students who we thank in our lives. I wrote some phrases on the board to help them to express themselves. I gave them post-it notes and I divided them…
You are kindly invited to the next ELL, ESL, ELT carnival. The theme of the 33rd carnival will be Songs in ELT Classrooms. If you want to participate, you can use the easy submission form and send me your blog list or you can contact me from here or twitter (I’m @evab2001) if the form doesn’t work. If you…
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 it…
5 Minute English is a site designed to give the learners short and easy explanations and exercises. The learners can have a quick look at grammar, reading, listening, vocabulary and idioms. They can also find answers to questions that can be confusing for other learners. This is under the Question and Answer section. If a…
There is a buzz going on about The great Gatsby. It’s of course because of the new Gatsby movie. I’ve seen so many links and resources on twitter, interest recently. Then I just remember I also have some resources for the novel. My The Great Gatsby resources A pre-reading animoto Research before reading Chapter 4…
Two years ago, we started our project in Puciosa, a small town in Romania. I didn’t know what was expecting us. I didn’t know what I should expect. Yet I had a feeling that everything would be great … We were in Lamia from April 14th to 19th. Our partner is a Music school so…
Day 1 Plenaries: Even a week before the conference I was excited as I knew what was expecting me… Two days of professional Development with people I admire, with people I share a lot. The day came with an extraordinary opening: A show of drawing pictures with sand and my mind already focused on P.D…
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Technology has changed our lives dramatically. We, even the people from the past, can’t remember how life was without our smart gadgets. Prensky used the term ‘Digital Natives’ and described this new generation and for him we were the digital immigrants. “Those of us who were not born into the digital world but have, at…
YOU are a story absorber and a story teller Andrew Wright At the moment, I’m working on the bios of the presenters, moderator roles, taking some notes, etc… Howevere, as usual, I have things around me to distract my attention. I came across with the article written by Andrew Wright and then I just came here…
I’m not a fan of doing Valentine’s Day activities in the class but this year I’m planning to do a song lesson. Next week is the first week of the second term in Turkey so this may also be good to break the ice. I’ve been playing with BiteSlide for some time. Here is what…
image from #eltpics via @mkofab In December, I had the chance to listen to Steven Krashen at YTU ELT symposium. He talked about the importance of reading, how he became a good reader and what narrow reading is. You can read Marisa Constantinides’ fabulous post on Dr Krashen’s talk here. That was the time I…
