Without music, life would be a mistake. Friedrich Nietzsche These days I’m dealing with the tenses with all levels so I decided to group the songs according to the tenses. As I’m focused on Past Simple and past Continuous now, I’ve started from them. When I prepare the lessons, I’ll also add them. Because you…
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…
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 literature. It is actually the companion website for Teaching Literature to Adolescents, by…
Last week we read Eveline from Dubliners with my 12th graders. On Monday we will talk about the story in details and then I will assign them with several follow-up tasks. Yesterday, on our way hoe we were listening to Bon Jovi and while listening to Runaway, I thought I might use the song…
I haven’t shared any song lessons for a long time. Here is a new one. I was looking for a song for Simple Past and I realized this can be an option. Still not sure if I’ll do it in class next week. Fairy tale is a cute song from Eurovision Song Contest. The song…
Sorry for the delay but I was so busy with so many things and now I want to share what I’ve done so far this year. For my grade 12 students who are getting ready for a very important exam for their future, I planned a motivational first week lesson. For this, I asked…
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…
#eltpics, @KatySDavies We have electricity, internet, smart phones, tablets, infinite technology. Yet our teenagers are not satisfied. Yet they don’t realize how they can develop themselves. Yet they can’t create anything. I was watching CNN and just came across this great project: The Daylight Project What a great…
I wanted to write a blog post for the 34th EFL Blog Carnival, which will be published by Carissa Peck on September 2nd but as these were the last days of summer holiday and I was also down with the flu on these boiling hot, humid days I couldn’t focus on anything and I decided to…
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…
