Don’t you sometimes find yourself thinking ‘Why are my students lazy?’ or ‘Why don’t they want to learn?’ Big problems to deal with, aren’t they? So why not starting to find out more about your students by asking questions considering to make your problems solvable? How? Well, instead of complaining ‘Why are they sooooo…
I’ll be hosing the 24th edition of ESL/EFL/ELL Blog Carnival on 1st of September. The title of this issue is 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 (I’m @evab2001) if the form doesn’t…
Here is a fun activity I’ve learned recently which can be used with songs. It sounds it will work well with young learners yet sometimes the teenagers also would like to do something like this. • Choose some words from the song you will use…
Energisers are great activities and can save lives when you feel your students are not in the lesson anymore. These quick games can be used to bring your students back to classroom. A little bit movement, mingle, laughter will break the ice, will help to get rid of the boredom. Maybe the focus is not…
http://www.glogster.com/flash/flash_loader.swf?ver=1309172072 Being a working mother is not easy. Being a teacher and a mother is a real challenge. Sometimes my kids grumble to me about my job. They complain because I spend too much time working for other kids. They complain when they get lower marks from English and say I never do anything for…
Well, well, I know ELT is a male dominant (or maybe used to be, considering all the female ELT stars on twitter and FB) sector around the world. However, it has always been more feminist in Turkey. ( maybe it has another reason to be discussed in another post yet I really loved…
Sometimes questions are more important than answers. Nancy Willard I sometimes feel one of the most ignored area in my classroom is practising asking questions. When I started teaching English, there was a trendy activity to ask questions. That was Find the question for the underlined answer which was very mechanical and boring and while checking my…
Tips for Teaching Reading to ESL Students http://www.myseveralworlds.com/2011/06/19/esl-educators-guide-tips-for-teaching-reading-to-esl-students/ Article write-up Teaching tips and advice on how you can make your reading assignments more interesting and relevant to the age level that you are teaching. Carrie Kellenberger, a freelance writer and photographer living in Asia since 2003, writes about life as an expat, Asian travel destinations,…
We organise a scrabble tournament every year and we invite our sister schools to join us. At the award ceremony we perform a play for our guests. This year I wanted it to be different because in grade 10 I had students who can sing very well…
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…
