Some more useful sites for teaching, learning and practising vocabulary Puzzlemaker at Discovery education enables teachers to create puzzles, You can create flashcards using Flashcard maker from Scholastic.com Spelling wizard is also a great tool to help self study or enables teachers to create spelling scramble and word search At SuperKidsVocabulary Builders, you can easily…
Find a song in another language which has an English version. Here is an idea for ‘Il faut savoir’ by Charles Aznavour. The song may be more suitable for adults but the activity can be applied to other songs as well.Play the song Ask students to try to guess what the song can be about…
I learned very early in life that: “Without a song, the day would never end; without a friend, a man ain’t got a friend; without a song, the road would never bend- without a song” So I keep singing a song. – Elvis Presley I have written many times that I really enjoy using…
This post is for Emma Herrod’s The Two-Week Vocabulary Blogging Challenge. Here you can also find great ideas to teach, store and learn vocabulary. You can read and reach more from Tyson’s posts I believe one of the most difficult areas of teaching English is teaching vocabulary. Students, often aware of the need for more…
It is that time of the year again. The time to make resolutions for the future and the time to recall past to take some lessons… I have lots of plans again. However, the thing that I want to share now is a bit different… I’m thinking about my 4th grade teacher… I have been…
I’m so thrilled because this blog and our wiki project that we started almost a year ago with Alexandra Francisco have been nominated and shortlisted for the edublog awards. I have thousands of words in my mind but can not find the correct ones to Thank everybody who nominated my blog as best teacher blog and…
Today I’ll write about my reflections on TESOL France’s 29th Annual Colloquium which was one of the most successful conferences I’ve ever attended. It was successful not only it gave us the chance to listen to David Crystal and watch their amazing family show, it also enabled us to attend many sessions of wonderful…
Here is my session handout for TESOL France 2010 and you can download the it clicking http://www.box.net/shared/2xmpbx363f
It’s difficult to make the nominations as I follow wonderful educators who help me develop professionally 7/24. I really feel guilty to leave some of them out of this list. But as David said in his post I believe all the educators who are online and helping others by sharing and collaborating are…
Well, when I sat down to write my reflections on TESOL France which was a huge success, I focused on faces rather than the sessions I attended. I saw the faces of teachers who arrived from the different corners of the world to update their skills, to learn more or to share what they’ve already…
I think most of you will agree with me that drilling can be boring and it is very old-fashioned. It is mechanical and it doesn’t promote any critical and creative thinking. However, don’t you ever think they work with certain classes, students. I couldn’t catch yesterday’s eltchat but as I followed from the tweets, it…
I have a group of students who are studying for the university entrance exam. These students will also take the language test too because they want to study TEFL or literature. Mostly we do more serious work in order to be ready for the vital test. However, there are times we need to take a…
