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    My Wonderful PLN – An Interview

    Byevasimkesyan June 3, 2011

    When I read Brad Patterson’s blog challenge PLN interviews… who’s next ?, I thought it would be difficult for me to choose a member from my PLN as all of them were so important for me and after meeting most of them they’ve become real life friends whom I can rely on as much as my…

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    My contribution to A Disabled-Access Friendly world: Lessons for the ELTclassroom

    Byevasimkesyan May 26, 2011

    Marisa Constantinides challenged us ”to contribute lesson ideas for the foreign language classroom which will be aimed at younger learners and teens and which will promote the concept of a disabled-friendly world where people who have mobility issues can have easy access to services, places of learning, public and private spaces easily and safely.” Before…

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  • stories | storytelling

    Teachers as Storytellers

    Byevasimkesyan May 22, 2011

      image credit ”I actually think one of my strengths is my storytelling”. Quentin Tarantino Last week we talked about storytelling at ELTChat and Leahn summarised the chat on her blog. You can find many interesting ideas and links there. While chatting I realised the chat is more focused on students’ telling or writing stories.I…

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  • BESL | fillers | Krashen | reading | storytelling

    Another Great Conference, BESL 2011

    Byevasimkesyan May 15, 2011

    At Bahçeşehir University, on May 14th, I had the chance to listen to Stephen Krashen, who was the person on my linguistics notes, PD courses I attended and there he was talking about his acquisition theory. I’m not going to tell about the whole event as I was there only in the morning and rushed to…

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  • book review | efl | Essential TEFL

    Essential TEFL, a Book Review

    Byevasimkesyan May 8, 2011

    The blurb on the back describes “Essential TEFL ”, written by James Jenkin and Emma Foers, as a source ‘Crammed with 300 activities, teaching aids and full guide to English grammar’. The book aims to support the new teachers and help them build confidence in planning lessons in their first years in TEFL. It is…

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  • 24th edition of esl ell efl blog carnival | esl ell efl blog carnival | Fillers and First Week Activities | warmers

    Next Blog Carnival, Right After the Summer Break

    Byevasimkesyan May 7, 2011

    I’ll host the 24th edition of ESL/EFL/ELL Blog Carnival on 1st of September. As schools start in September in most of the countries, I’m planning to do a 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 if…

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  • activities | reading

    Fun with Class Readers 3

    Byevasimkesyan April 30, 2011

                    image taken from here   This is the 3rd and the last post of graded-reader-ideas. If you want to add another activity to this list, I will be very happy. 21. Tell students to list all the interesting words, phrases and expressions or all the new words,…

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  • activities | reading

    Fun with Class Readers 2

    Byevasimkesyan April 29, 2011

    11. Tell the students to choose one of the characters and write about his/her life 10 years from the ending of the story. 12. Tell students to create a quiz on the story. They have to include vocabulary questions, comprehension questions, discussion questions, etc 13. Ask them to create a word poster of the book…

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    Fun with Class Readers 1

    Byevasimkesyan April 28, 2011

                      If you are using class readers, short stories or novels with your students, here are some ideas. Some of them have been used and some of them has just downed on me while writing this post. I have some more ideas and will add them later….

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  • dictionaries | pronunciation | web 2.0

    5 Cool Tools to be Bookmarked

    Byevasimkesyan April 22, 2011

    My recent favourites. Try them if you haven’t already used them. is a fun site. Type your half phrase or sentence and ask phrasup to complete nad translate it for you.  Batlyrics is a fabulous site if you like using songs in your lessons. I learned it via Nik Peachey from his ISTEK talk. Just type a phrase…

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