Last weekend I attended a 2-day-professional development workshops on etwinning for beginners. I must say I learned a lot. I’ve been registered etwinning with a hope to find a Comenius project partner for almost a year but attending the workshops I realised I knew nothing about the site. Etwinning gives teachers a wonderful opportunity to…
Eventually My Journey in TEFL is celebrating her 1st birthday in blogosphere. I’m so glad that I started blogging. I believe September is a very lucky month for me. I’m not going to reveal everything but many good things in my life all started in September. Everything started last year on 5th of September with…
This is a fun activity that I found from ESLCafe years ago and I love using it once every year. It’s even great to team your students for their group works. Group the students as the 1st child, middle child, youngest child of their family or a single child. Prepare a handout with some questions similar…
image taken from here I really enjoyed reading the posts of my PLN about their teaching approaches. I thought we have lots of things in common, the flexibility, being student centred, etc. However, I tried to name mine. I guess my teaching approach is more or less similar but let’s look at the classroom…
Coming together is a beginning. Keeping together is progress. Working together is success. – Henry Ford In some parts of the world the classes have just begun and here we still have time to prepare ourselves for the coming year. We all have some tricks to begin the new term, some fun ideas to make…
Here is a fun writing activity that you can use with your students. We call them ‘month projects’ because the students have to write the things they have learned, experienced, read or watched at the end of each month. They sometimes write about their feelings, disappointments or goals too. These articles are just for me….
I must confess one of the skills that I neglect is listening. However, it should be one of the most important ones. By improving listening, the learners learn to train themselves to understand the native speakers or other speakers of English. I think this is because, it is easier to check, assess grammar, vocabulary or…
Well, I told you about the wonderful experience we had with Berni and told that the whole thing was part of a professional development course. We started with advanced grammar and continued with getting students to write, use technology tools (blogs, wikis etc developing ideas), or the traditional way. The following day was about improving…
Dreams can come true. I have just learned it. It all started with a tweet. It was an ordinary evening with twitter when I saw Berni Wall’s tweet offering a week of teachers’ workshops in Yorkshire. First, I couldn’t believe my eyes. When I DMed her, I understood how serious she was. It was a…
Reading is one of the activities I love doing. However, students don’t usually like it as they haven’t built a habit for reading or they think they don’t read in their daily lives. When I ask about their preferences, they mostly say they don’t read anything. Of course, they do read. We know that but they don’t…
It’s summer in the Northern Hemisphere and that means schools are close and we are on holiday. That’s good because it gives us a chance to relax, read and have some ‘me’ time. That’s also good because during this time we can do something for professional development just attending some workshops, reading books, even cleaning…
I believe from the moment we enter the classroom, our aim should be to help our students see where their learning journey is taking them to so the first day activities are important to give them some clues too. You can adapt the activities below according to your classes. If they are new comers this…
