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    My Wonderful PLN-2

    Byevasimkesyan June 6, 2011June 21, 2026

     Janet Bianchini is one of the first people I started following when I stepped in twitter and blogosphere. From the day I’ve met her virtually, I received infinite support from her. So for Brad’s blog interview challenge I also wanted to interview her. Before I got her answers, I tried to answer them. Here are…

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    My Wonderful PLN – An Interview

    Byevasimkesyan June 3, 2011

    When I read Brad Patterson’s blog challenge PLN interviews… who’s next ?, I thought it would be difficult for me to choose a member from my PLN as all of them were so important for me and after meeting most of them they’ve become real life friends whom I can rely on as much as my…

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    My contribution to A Disabled-Access Friendly world: Lessons for the ELTclassroom

    Byevasimkesyan May 26, 2011

    Marisa Constantinides challenged us ”to contribute lesson ideas for the foreign language classroom which will be aimed at younger learners and teens and which will promote the concept of a disabled-friendly world where people who have mobility issues can have easy access to services, places of learning, public and private spaces easily and safely.” Before…

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    Teachers as Storytellers

    Byevasimkesyan May 22, 2011June 21, 2026

      ”I actually think one of my strengths is my storytelling”. Quentin Tarantino Last week we talked about storytelling at ELTChat and Leahn summarised the chat on her blog. You can find many interesting ideas and links there. While chatting I realised the chat is more focused on students’ telling or writing stories.I attended the…

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    Another Great Conference, BESL 2011

    Byevasimkesyan May 15, 2011

    At Bahçeşehir University, on May 14th, I had the chance to listen to Stephen Krashen, who was the person on my linguistics notes, PD courses I attended and there he was talking about his acquisition theory. I’m not going to tell about the whole event as I was there only in the morning and rushed to…

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    Essential TEFL, a Book Review

    Byevasimkesyan May 8, 2011

    The blurb on the back describes “Essential TEFL ”, written by James Jenkin and Emma Foers, as a source ‘Crammed with 300 activities, teaching aids and full guide to English grammar’. The book aims to support the new teachers and help them build confidence in planning lessons in their first years in TEFL. It is…

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    Next Blog Carnival, Right After the Summer Break

    Byevasimkesyan May 7, 2011

    I’ll host the 24th edition of ESL/EFL/ELL Blog Carnival on 1st of September. As schools start in September in most of the countries, I’m planning to do a 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 if…

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    Fun with Class Readers 3

    Byevasimkesyan April 30, 2011

                    image taken from here   This is the 3rd and the last post of graded-reader-ideas. If you want to add another activity to this list, I will be very happy. 21. Tell students to list all the interesting words, phrases and expressions or all the new words,…

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    Fun with Class Readers 2

    Byevasimkesyan April 29, 2011June 21, 2026

    11. Tell the students to choose one of the characters and write about his/her life 10 years from the ending of the story. 12. Tell students to create a quiz on the story. They have to include vocabulary questions, comprehension questions, discussion questions, etc 13. Ask them to create a word poster of the book…

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    Fun with Class Readers 1

    Byevasimkesyan April 28, 2011

                      If you are using class readers, short stories or novels with your students, here are some ideas. Some of them have been used and some of them has just downed on me while writing this post. I have some more ideas and will add them later….

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    Teachers are Learners

    Byevasimkesyan April 22, 2011June 21, 2026

    I’ve been thinking about being a lifelong learner for a while. Attending ISTEK ELT in March and IATEFL in April reminded me that teachers are learners too or I think teachers should be learners too. One of the challenges of a 21st century teacher is integrating technology into the lessons. Well, technology is a scary…

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    IATEFL Chronicles, The End

    Byevasimkesyan April 18, 2011

    This is my last post from the conference. It was great to be here. I enjoyed the every bit of the conference. I’m tired and sleepless but I know it is worth it. After blogging and twitter, many things changed in my life. I sleep less, I watch television less but I still can manage….

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