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…
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…
I have been quite busy recently and I realise I’ve missed many interesting things going on in the blogosphere. Yesterday I found out this photoblog challenge and really enjoyed reading all the posts and tasks. Brad has a list of bloggers who took the challenge and you can see them here. Tasks: Find at least…
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. The CelebrateUandMeDigitally wiki…
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…
(image link) Today I met two of my students who are ready to teach English. I was their English teacher from high school prep class to grade 11 then they studied at university and now they are about to start their career. We had a really nice chat and of course being a teacher…
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…
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
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…
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…
