A Journey in TEFL – Page 14 – Ideas for Teaching English

#etpIstanbul | Etp | speaking | web 2.0 tools

Dijital Sınıfta ilk adımlar #etpistanbul
Byevasimkesyan March 22, 2014

Okul kavramı antik çağlardan beri hayatımızda ve öğrenmeye olan ihtiyaç da her zaman var olacak. Teknolojinin yaşantılarımıza girmesi ile hızla değişen dünyamızda eğitimin de etkileniyor olması kaçınılmaz. 20. yüzyılın başlarında ‘Çocuklarımıza kendi öğrendiğimiz gibi öğretirsek, onlardan geleceklerini çalarız’ diyen John Dewey bugünün öğretmenlerini için de geçerli bir mesaj gönderiyor bizlere. 21. yüzyıl ‘Dijital Çağ’ olarak…

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activities | dialogue | efl | fun | fun activities | ice-breakers | vocabulary | writing games

5 Fun Activities For the Monday Morning
Byevasimkesyan March 15, 2014

1. Categories Divide the class into two. Explain the rules. You will give the students a category. Call 2 students from each team to the board. Set 2 minutes and tell them to write the words that come to their mind. Some categories: Things in a fridge Things you can buy from a supermarket…

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A Cool Tool for #Flipped Literature Classes
Byevasimkesyan March 6, 2014

#eltpics @evab2001 Without literature, language classes will be boring. I like ways to bring the novels, short stories, poems into the classroom and make my students think about things happening in them. I believe we are pretty lucky because we have so many online resources and texts that we can recommend our students to read….

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efl | FlipQuiz | web 2.0

FlipQuiz
Byevasimkesyan February 27, 2014

We love playing games in the class and quiz-show type games are very popular in our classrooms. We have the PowerPoint format of most games but if we want to change certain things on them to adapt the game for our own needs, we spend long hours and sometimes we give up. I’ve just come…

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fast finishers | writing

The Challenging Case of Fast Finishers in a Mixed Ability Class
Byevasimkesyan February 22, 2014

We all have more motivated, fast thinking students in our classes. Often we feel guilty that they can’t advance more as they wait for their classmates to finish the tasks given. I got the idea of more tasks for fast finishers from Pinterest pins. Some teachers prepared posters for them, some had jars with reviewing…

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activities | Conditional Sentences | efl | games | grammar | If Clauses

Fun Activities with Conditionals
Byevasimkesyan February 16, 2014

1. Writing chain stories or even writing chain poems. If you decide to do the chain poem writing activity, then give them a skeleton If I drink coffee, I’ll stay awake tonight If I stay awake tonight, I’ll fall asleep in the morning. And if I fall asleep in the morning, My teacher will be…

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connecting words | efl | ELL | linkers | mixed ability | narratives | sequencing | writing | writing a paragraph

A Drill-like Narrative Writing Activity
Byevasimkesyan February 4, 2014

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…

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efl | flipped classroom

A Way of Flipping a Mixed Ability Class
Byevasimkesyan January 27, 2014

“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…

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creative follow-up tasks | creative writing | creativity | efl | flipped classroom

5 tools I’ll use in 2014
Byevasimkesyan December 28, 2013

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…

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efl | flipped classroom | task based

Flipping My Class with Vintage Photos
Byevasimkesyan December 22, 2013

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…

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