image taken here It all started with the reading text in our course book called ‘Boys R Us’, Going for Gold, Upper-int. (Longman) The story was about a teenager who was a reluctant student but changed when a teacher assigned them to write a 20 page- story in 2 months. The teenager went home and…
This post is written for Shelly Terrell’s #30 goals challenge. It was some years ago. I had the prep classes then which means I had 12 hours with the class to teach grammar. The students I had that year were the laziest or the most demotivated ones in my teaching career. They…
Am I too late? Just found this poem ‘The colour of my dreams’ by Peter Dixon while searching for something else in my files and I thought it would be lovely to take it to staff room to think once again on success rates, even to the classroom to make students realise there are…
With my year 10 students we will start reading Jamaica Inn (level 5) and as a pre-reading task I prepared the glog and at the lab they researched and answered the questions. They are very curious about the story now and they are looking forward to reading it. http://www.glogster.com/flash/flash_loader.swf?ver=1300206555 I’d like to hear your ideas…
I love the idea of small talks where students present something to their classmates and in a way they learn how to present, how to talk in front of a crowd. We use a topic based coursebook in that way students focus on a different topic in each unit. This year I told my students that…
Well, when do you say, I will survive? Guess I can hear you? If a friend has a broken heart and is very sad, what advice will you give and in thend make her say ‘I will survive’ Don’t worry it is not me who needs to be strong 🙂 [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZBR2G-iI3-I&w=350&h=280] Here is…
I guess you all know that I love using songs in lessons. This week I’ll teach giving advice, talking about regrets. The target language is the modals for that. I decided to start with a song. When I prepare I will also share but after I tweeted ‘Dear PLN, can u suggest me a song…
Well, well, well, it’s been a very hectic month. As you know I was a runner in the elt-blogathon, a marathon for bloggers. It is over now or it will be over today but as I blogged my last posts last night. I can say it is over. It was a great challenge. I…
It’s a very quiet Sunday for me today. Nobody is at home and I’m with my laptop and I’ve bookmarked loads of great sites so far. My number #1 is Max My Dream which is also became a fave for Ana Maria Menezes and she blogged about it. You will find her post very useful as…
image taken here As Andrew Wright said ‘We are all stories’ and because of that stories are very important in our lives. Once my daughter (when she was very little) told me that ’ a storyteller living in the sky reads our stories to us every day and we act in…
