My Nominations for the #Edublog Awards
It is too difficult to do this but ı feel I have to 🙁 I wish there were more categories ..2011 Categories
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Can a Comenius Project change a Thing? Part 1
dedication team spirit dignity passion joy from what they have been doing motivation self-confidence pride of the work they have been doing ambition enthusiasm hospitality cheerful hardworking friendly well-organised and many more ….. Sometimes sentences are not enough to describe certain things if you are not a talented author or a poet. People like…
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elt | esl | grammar | lesson ideas
Asking Indirect Questions
The following activity was something spontaneous when we did ‘indirect questions’ but then I felt the students still needed practice, something more like a mechanical drill but I was not prepared for more exercises so I did the folllowing. I told mys sts to have 4 slips of paper. On each paper, I told them…
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Using Quotations to Revise Grammar
Last week we revised modals with my year 12 students and after doing a lot of exercises, tests, etc ( they are studying for the university entrancre exam and they will take the language exam so they need to master the grammar and the skills as well) I realised they still got confused as most of…
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Describe …
Here are some activities you can use when teaching descriptions. Characteristics: Agree on a list of 5 people known to students Dictate words and phrases which describe the people chosen Students write the descriptions you dictate beneath the name of the person they think is referred to. Rights/ Wrongs Choose something to describe. Tell…
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A Lesson Idea
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…
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A New School Year and New Beginnings
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…
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Blog | elt | esl | lesson ideas | Lesson Planning
24th Edition of EFL/ESL/ELL Blog Carnival
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…
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Guessing Game Guest Post by Arzu Baloglu
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…
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A Warmer and a Filler
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
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creative tasks | creative writing | elt | esl | lesson ideas
Variations with ‘go and open the door’
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….
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A Warmer and a Filler
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…