Engaging students with creative writing activities helps reinforce grammar in an enjoyable way. Here’s a lesson idea that can be used to revise relative clauses. Activity: A Letter to My Future Self Objective: To practice relative clauses by writing a reflective and imaginative letter. Model Example: Dear future self, I hope you have found a…
Diffit is an amazing tool. It saves teachers time by helping them create personalized resources that are just right for each student’s needs. With Diffit, teachers have the flexibility to create their own resources or use articles and videos from the internet to generate exercises. ( it also provides sources from the internet that you…
Playing with ChatGPT to write stories. While playing with ChatGPT, I tried writing a story with it. I wrote the first sentence and then I told it to add its sentence to continue the story logically. I told ChatGPT that it can only add one sentence at a time. It was really interesting to…
A Writing Lesson Idea With A Touch of AI Creativity. Teaching descriptions can be boring both for the teacher and the students. By adding creativity and fun, we can transform this into an engaging classroom activity. I was playing with some text-to image tools and then I’ve come up with the following activity. Please feel…
Why podcasts are a good idea: When I see someone with earphones, I assume they are listening to music. I think it’s normal for someone from “Walkman” generation. However, music is not always the choice for teenagers. I’ve noticed recently that lots of young people are also listening to podcasts while walking, commuting, cooking, or…
I haven’t been posting any song lessons for a long time. I’ve prepared this for my 1-on-1 lesson. Hope you’ll like it 🙂 “Sorry Seems to Be the Hardest Word” WARM UP Can you apopologize easily? Why do you apopologize? Have you ever experienced a situation where saying sorry was difficult? When it is difficult…
In the next academic year, I’m planning to teach my students how to benefit from AI and show them that it’s not here for them to cheat and if they can learn how to use it, they will benefit from it a lot. Last year, I used ChatGPT to create lessons and exercises. I…
In ELT, we tend to use Concept Checking Questions a lot because we believe CCQs play an important role in ensuring that students grasp the target language accurately. They are simple and useful tools to assess understanding, clarify doubts, and reinforce learning. A Concept Checking Question (CCQ) is a question, or a series of questions…
Google Keep is a free, web-based note-taking app that allows users to create, edit, and share notes. It can also be a great tool for teachers. Here are a few things you can do with Google Keep: These are some of the features of Google Keep. However, I want to highlight one feauture that you’ll…
2 AI tools to create lessons for your learners Some believe AI tools are creepy, some believe they are just tools. They’ve been with us for a couple of years and now we are witnessing how they are improving. There was a time in the past when I started discovering Web 2.0 tools to use…
