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…
Reading is a must for me. I feel guilty when I can’t find time to read. I feel stressed if I can’t finish a book I have started reading. I know we grew in a world where we had be told that the books a the best friends and things are not the same anymore….
Level: Any Materials: power point, images of holiday places Target language: Past tenses Ask students to create a 2-slide powerpoint. On one slide they will upload a photo they have taken from a holiday. On the second slide, they will write a short text describing the picture. They may answer the following questions to write…
Pub Quiz on the Net Target Language: Passive Voice, Simple Past Tense Level: A1, A2 Materials: ( colourful) pen, paper, internet connection, Team students according to the size of your class. Give them categories as inventions, literature, discoveries, music, etc. Tell them in teams they will search on the web and come up with 10…
During the Olympics I will not be able to do any lessons in the class as we started our summer holiday but there will be friends around the world that they will have classes while the GAMES are happening. You can find some ideas and printables from the following links Eslflow English for games Create…
We are about to end another academic year. In some ways it was fruitful and in other ways, I had some disappointments. Some students did very well. Some, however, were happy with their moderate improvement. Every year I ask students to write feedback twice. One two months later we meet and one at the end…
You can see some student examples from here and also from the links of my class blogs. You can download the handout.
I’m looking forward to being at Yeditepe University this weekend. I’m sure it will be a great event. If you have already seen the speaker list, you will understand what I mean. I will be one of the British Council Roving reporters so if you are there and if you happen to bump into me,…
Finally we hosted our partner schools in Istanbul. My school was very glad to have this opportunity. We, the language department teachers worked very hard yet we enjoyed and learned a lot. On the first day, after the short tour in the school, we gathered in the conference hall and presented ‘What Comenius means to…
