adapted with flickr image Schools have just closed and a nice summer holiday waits. Reading will be my most favourite activity in the long, lazy afternoons. This year was very fruitful for me. So many things have happened and so many things have changed in my life. This is because of the things I’ve been…
Twitter enables all of us to reach fabulous links. These are my recent favourites. I know it is possible to survive as a teacher without twitter, nings, PLNs yet teachers should know they are missing great stuff because they just have a PLN at school. 1. Braingle is a site where you can find…
Part of the series from my PLN It’s not rocket science, you may well be saying to yourself. Of course, filing your materials in A-Z format is the obvious way to keep organised! Well, not everyone may do this, so I would like to share some tips which have helped me over the years…
Joyce is one of the most difficult authors. It is not easy to understand him so he is not usually in high school teachers’ lists. However, if you have a class who loves reading short stories, you can give it a try to Dubliners. I’m not saying that we can read all the stories but…
Well, partly because I have classes with no football enthusiasm and as schools close this Friday, I can’t do any World Cup themed lessons with my students. I believe the event itself can be a great resource for a speaking activity. However, there are other great things which can be done while the world…
In project based learning we expect our students to create projects. Students are supposed to research and link all the subjects together and present their projects with the use of technology. This year we tried to use it in our classes but we still have some question marks. Should we always define a problem…
Another school year is about to finish and we are about to announce the successful students. Yesterday with some colleagues we had a chat and found out how much we knew about each kid. Most of us know about their problems at home and unfortunately the majority of the kids do have problems. Some of…
As I said before, I really enjoyed this blog reading task partly because I love doing homework 🙂 and it allows me to discover more. If you like, make a cup of fresh coffee and do some extensive reading. I’ll start with Murphy’s Law for EFL teachers from Natasa’s blog. Natasa Bozic Grojic writes how…
http://www.glogster.com/flash/flash_loader.swf?ver=1275302300 If you are also about to finish the school year and need something else other than your course material, quotes are always good for wonderful activities. What can you do with them? 1. Write some of them on pieces of paper and stick to the walls and do wall dictation. 2. Jumble some of…
On June 1st, we celebrated the Pen Pal Day together. This time we were more crowded. Actually we planned to be able to do it all together, 5 countries at the same time but time differences and our working hours didn’t allow us to do so. Arjana, Ana Maria and Guido got connected…
When the schools are about to finish, I tend to do more fun activities instead of grammar revisions. Some of these activities are from books, workshops, colleagues, TV programmes and some of them are adaptations. Here I go: 1. Imagine and write. Play some instrumental music. Tell students to imagine a character and jot down the…
The blog competition ended and most of my friends have been voted for the top ranks.Here you can see the results.I’m so much honoured to be on the same list with these great bloggers, who continuously inspire, motivate, collaborateand support. I’m learning loads of things from them. I want to congratulate all of them. Actually…
