We all know that while working on projects, flipping our classrooms using Google apps are great such as the folder, presentation, form and the spreadsheet but if you check, you will find more for your own needs. These are the ones that I’m planning to use next year Google templates you will find a suitable…
Welcome to the 33rd ELT carnival. The theme is Using Music and Songs in EFL Classes and today I’m happy to introduce a wonderful album to you. If you are ready grab a cup of coffee (hot or cold), put the record on and enjoy … Here we begin SIDE 1 From Vicky Loras’s Blog by…
If you love using quotes in your lessons, you will love Recite, a tool that allows you to create posters that can be used in your classrooms. Some ideas to use quotes in class…
Can dreams come true? Can a teacher touch the lives of students? Do unbelievable success stories exist in only movies, chicken soup stories? Can children in slums be saved and educated as the kids who have more resources? What does a music teacher need to form an orchestra, a fully talented class of kids or…
Sometimes you don’t need to assign your students with certain tasks, just give them a tool and watch what happens. After discussing the book together, I divided them into groups and told them they are going to write a twitter chat based on the novel. That was it! They were very eager to start their…
image credit #eltpics, @ij64 As a matter of fact I had forgotten this song until I listened to it again at the opening ceremony of the London Olympics and for a while I kept hearing it in my mind and then I realized I can use it in the class as well. When I listened to…
I’d like to share a guided writing activity that I adapted for my classes. Give students a card and ask them to read the instructions. Tell them they are going to invent a story about what happened to the characters on their cards. Give them the pre-prepared questions and ask them to answer the…
ZooBurst is a digital storytelling tool that lets you create your own 3D pop-up books by uploading pictures and adding text. ZooBurst is also a very secure tool for young learners as its target users are teachers and students. If you choose the premium account you can have a class dashboard…
Two years ago at a plenary talk JJ Wilson told that we enter the class with everything we put in our luggage. Looking at my past I completely agree with him. Through the years we pack a suitcase adding little pebbles every time we repack. The suitcase we are given at our birth is not…
The Sound of Silence is a very powerful song and although it is from a very remote past for our teens, they love it when they hear. When I do the song in the class, I choose images from the web. Just type ‘silence’ and choose the images you want to use in your…
