I’m experiencing another post conference blues. I just came home from one of my favourite conferences. I started TESOL France from day 2. I met friends whom I had met before and missed a lot and I met friends who had been my online PLN for more than 2 years. The first session I attended…
Smore is an online flyer creator but it looks very versatile and we, teachers can use it in many ways You can design a flyer to invite people for an event you or your school created describe a product create a class newspaper or a school newsletter compiling students board on one topic and embed…
I just discovered a new site, Edcanvas where you can easily create online lessons adding urls of a site or videos from Youtube, text and image with web search, upload your own documents from your desktop or from your dropbox account. It is easy and looks promising. I was adding my students’ poems on my…
Schools started. I have new classes and I have classes that I know from last year. We started working hard. We, as the English Department of our school, prepared lessons to motivate our students. With my year 12 students, who will graduate and take the university exam, we read ‘Go and Open the Door’, a…
I found this activity hidden in one of my idea notebooks a few minutes ago while trying to organize my files. Ask students to write a question on a piece of paper. Tell them to fold it down and pass it to the next student. The next students will also write a question and fold…
This image is from #eltpics and was taken by Vicky Loras Some of us have already started teaching, some of us have started going to school to get ready for the new school year. During summer I bookmarked some sites that I thought will be handy now. From my blog: First of all I will…
This is a repost for #ELTchat For the last – well, almost two years now, since September 15 2010, #ELTchat has kept us on our toes and forged hundreds of professional and personal relationships amongst its followers who turn up on Twitter every Wednesday to talk about topics they have suggested and voted on…
Materials: Prepare small ingredient cards. (One ingredient on card/with pictures if you want or you can either bring food to the classroom) 1 computer for 2 students 😉 or you may supply them with some magazines even in L1 Level: Upper-int and above Watch a part from Ready Steady Cook. Tell them to jot…
Beatlesmania… How should I start? Welll… No introduction is needed for this post. I love Beatles 🙂 I love using their songs in my lessons. Below I added some links which I had bookmarked for future use. I hope they will inspire us in the new school year. My Beatlesmania Links 1. 10 Stories Behind…
Pinterest is actually a virtual noticeboard. You add small sticky notes with images to your canvas. You can have many boards and you can pin articles, blog posts, and ideas according to your interests When I first heard about pinterest, I thought ‘enough, I’m already lost among so many sites.’ I managed to avoid…
Another short story I love reading with my students is Eveline from Dubliners. I know it is difficult to understand Joyce for a teenager yet when guided, students get something from Dubliners. I have tried Eveline and Araby and they worked well. I’d like to share what I do with ‘Eveline’. Describe Ireland, Dublin and…
One of my favourite writers for the ‘Reading Class’ is Roald Dahl. I’ve been using his short stories for almost a decade and the students have always loved them. I just came across with this pdf http://www.msad54.org/district/literacyspecialist/pdf/blooms.pdf But you can also get more ideas for using Bloom’s taxonomy in reading classes which I find…
