I’ve been planning to write something about lesson planning for a while, but I couldn’t decide how to do it. Then, while sitting on the couch and doing nothing for a while, suddenly I had this idea: “I will think about a 45-minute lesson flow where there will be warm-ups, lead-ins, pre-, while-, and post-activities…
As the year comes to an end, many language classrooms naturally turn to New Year’s resolutions. I actually love New Year’s resolutions: asking students to make lists, make promises to themselves, and draw road maps. However, over the years, I’ve noticed a shift in my own thinking. I still dream, plan, and imagine my future,…
What I Learned from Cambridge’s Webinar I’ve recently watched a webinar on using AI with our students, and this was by far one of the best webinars I have watched on GenAI. The webinar was organized by Cambridge English, titled “Using Generative AI to develop writing skills for secondary learners”. The aim was to explore…
Using Birth Order and Personality Adjectives in Group Work One of my favourite group work in EFL activities has always been getting students moving and talking at the same time. Years ago, I shared an activity on my blog called Get into groups according to… and it was always a hit because it got students…
“While I was watching a movie, the electricity went out.” Grammar sentences in EFL coursebooks have barely changed in decades. “While I was watching a movie, the electricity went out.” How many times have we seen this one? It is a classic for teaching past continuous and past simple. I do not even know how…
An Engaging Alternative for Chain Stories A fun conditional activity can completely change the energy in a grammar lesson. Grammar doesn’t have to mean drills and gap-fills. This activity combines logic, storytelling, and collaboration in a challenge that will get your learners thinking and speaking in conditionals. What’s the idea? Here is an activity I…
How to Design Warmers in Grammar Lessons That Actually Work When teaching grammar, context is everything. We want our students to see language as a tool for communication, not just a set of rules to memorize. That’s why presenting grammar within a meaningful context—through a reading or listening exercise, a short video, or a real-life…
Art and creativity with AI came together in an unexpected way during one of my reading classes. We were working on an article about art, and I started the lesson with a few warm-up questions: What is art? What do you think about art? The students had some interesting ideas, and their answers set the…
A Letter to the Future is one of those activities that I have been thinking about for a while without actually trying it yet. It sits in that category of ideas that feel right, not just as a grammar task, but as something genuinely meaningful for students. Why A Letter to the Future Works This…
Diffit is an amazing tool. It saves teachers time by helping them create personalized resources that are just right for each student’s needs. With Diffit, teachers have the flexibility to create their own resources or use articles and videos from the internet to generate exercises. ( it also provides sources from the internet that you…
Playing with ChatGPT to write stories. While playing with ChatGPT, I tried writing a story with it. I wrote the first sentence and then I told it to add its sentence to continue the story logically. I told ChatGPT that it can only add one sentence at a time. It was really interesting to…
A Writing Lesson Idea With A Touch of AI Creativity. Teaching descriptions can be boring both for the teacher and the students. By adding creativity and fun, we can transform this into an engaging classroom activity. I was playing with some text-to image tools and then I’ve come up with the following activity. Please feel…
