From time to time, I do this fun activity with my students and we have fun and laughter in the class. On slips of papers write some sentences. (or tell your students to write a suggestion, regret, wish, advise, exclamation, etc) Put the slips of papers in an envelope. Prepare index cards. On each card, write situations and…
Reading Tara Benwell’s blog post was so much fun that I immediately wanted to create my own list. See my kids grow up I want to see them grow up and find the right job and the person for them:-) Learn Italian I have always wanted to learn Italian but I can’t find the time,…
Why do we attend seminars and conferences? After the very successful ISTEK seminar, I’ve been thinking why we should attend seminars and conferences. I’ve been teaching for 21 years. I haven’t attended any IATEFL conferences yet but it is one of my dreams. I hope it will become true one day. However, I try to…
The listening was an interview with 2 people who who took part in an experiment for a television series. The experiment was about if people of the 21st century could live in Iron Age. I wanted them to learn something from this experiment because if they just listen, they do the task and they don’t…
Yesterday I explained how to reduce relative clauses into phrases to my 11 graders and they were all confused. Then I distributed the handouts I prepared for them to exercise and asked them to rewrite the sentences. While doing the exercises they were bored and they couldn’t get the idea.Today I played a game with…
Last two weeks were very fruitful. I had the chance to read great blog posts and thanks to twitter and PLN I learned a lot. I had prepared my power point presentation for the ISTEK conference before I read Janet Bianchini and Shelly Terrell’s blogs. After reading their posts and Jeremy Harmer’s article, I looked…
Words are easy, like the wind; William Shakespeare We start speaking using words. Simple, one word sentences make every parent happy when their toddler starts speaking then comes the others. They are so powerful. Even if you go to a country and you don’t know the language, you can still survive with some simple words…
Why do we use pre activities before a reading text or a speaking topic? 1. to raise learners’ awareness 2. to wake them up 3. to generate ideas 4. to learn the necessary vocabulary that may appear in the text or conversation 5. to stimulate discussion Why do we use post activities after the reading…
Knowledge is power (Sir Francis Bacon) Most of us will agree that twitter and blogging has had a great impact on our teaching or self improvement. When I read my colleagues blog posts I find lots of similarities between me and them. The most important is the enthusiasm we have for teaching. We all…
My March themes and some activities for these days are as follows. I hope I’ll be able to use some of them with my classes. 1. March 4, the world book day : In the class we can create posters telling why we should read, how reading can help us to become ourselves. Students can…
As long as you derive inner help and comfort from anything, keep it. Mahatma Gandhi I’ve been thinking about commenting or retweeting since I read the post Karenne Sylvester wrote. I had been reading blogs before I started blogging but I never left a comment. It was most probably I was a stranger, not a member of…
For sometime I’ve been using web 2.0 tools for follow-ups. They are also great for pre activities. This is something I used with my 10 graders for their reading activity last week and from now on I’ll try to find ways how I can use them for pre and post activities. The reading was on…
