I think the life Steve Jobs led, his achievements, his dreams, his talks and the gadgets he revolutionised and presented us will teach many lessons to the teenagers. They have a long life with dreams and opportunites so I decided to take this article to class tomorrow and prepared a lesson on it. You can…
Dear friends, I haven’t written for a long time but I was a bit busy. This post is a letter actually. When I look back , I think 2010-2011 was a very successful school year both for me and my students. With students we did many interesting things apart from the curriculum. And before I…
Warmers, Fillers and 1st Week Activities The theme of 24th edition of the efl/esl/ell blog carnival is Warmers, Fillers and 1st Week Activities. As in some parts of the world we are excited to meet our new students, I’m hoping that we will have some different activities to start the year other than the ones we…
I work at a high school and I mainly teach 9th and 10th grades.I learned this activity at a workshop I attended a few months ago. The idea is to give students some clue words and numbers which are important to you and make them guess what they are about.So ss are getting to know…
I recieved an email with this activity from Merve Elbirlik Tülek (@merveelbirlik) who is working as an EFL instructor. The activity can be used at the first week or as a filler during the year. Thank you Merve 🙂 http://www.box.net/embed/gsobzgtbsjzgf43.swf
The original activity is described here and the poem ‘Go and Open the Door’ by Miroslav Holub is here. This is a very powerful poem and I think it will work really well with teenagers and adults on the first week of the term. Here is a variation with the poem for the new comers….
As the end of the month is close, I started getting more links for the blog carnival. However, there are loads of ideas with friends who hasn’t started blogging yet. Emine Bülür is one of them and I’m so happy that she wanted to contribute to the carnival with an activity. Here is a warmer…
Don’t you sometimes find yourself thinking ‘Why are my students lazy?’ or ‘Why don’t they want to learn?’ Big problems to deal with, aren’t they? So why not starting to find out more about your students by asking questions considering to make your problems solvable? How? Well, instead of complaining ‘Why are they sooooo…
I’ll be hosing the 24th edition of ESL/EFL/ELL Blog Carnival on 1st of September. The title of this issue is Warmers, Fillers and First Week Activities edition. If you want to participate, you can use the easy submission form or you can contact me from here or twitter (I’m @evab2001) if the form doesn’t work. I’ve…
Lyric Race is a fun activity I’ve learned recently which can be used with songs. It sounds it will work well with young learners yet sometimes the teenagers also would like to do something like this. • Choose some words from the song you will use in the class and prepare word cards. Stick the…
Energisers are great activities and can save lives when you feel your students are not in the lesson anymore. These quick games can be used to bring your students back to classroom. A little bit movement, mingle, laughter will break the ice, will help to get rid of the boredom. Maybe the focus is not…
Being a working mother is not easy. Being a teacher and a mother is a real challenge. Sometimes my kids grumble to me about my job. They complain because I spend too much time working for other kids. They complain when they get lower marks from English and say I never do anything for them….
