This year was different. Now I feel much better. I know I’m a good teacher. (that’s what my husband calls me) However, I thought I was stuck somewhere trying to motivate myself. I was thinking I was tired. (may be needed a break) I was thinking I needed praise. (my students often wrote thank you notes…
I’m sure we sometimes finish the lesson before the planned time or we see that our students are lost and aren’t following us then we tend to find something to motivate them. It’s always a good idea to have something ready for these moments. Fillers are great. They are short, energising and motivating. Whenever I…
Reading blogs is a wonderful activity. It just doesn’t help us learn new things but it also gives inspirations and also a wish or a reason to write.When I read the confessions of a less than a perfect teacher, I thought about my evolution. And now I have a reason to write. When I first…
GO AND OPEN THE DOOR Go and open the door. May be outside there’s a tree, or a wood, a garden, or a magic city. Go and open the door. Maybe a dog’s rummaging Maybe you’ll see a face, or an eye, or the picture of a picture. Go and open the door. If there’s…
Well, it’s been only a few months since I started blogging and I’ve learned so many things from a huge group of great educators. I feel myself happy as I have a superb PLN. It’s difficult for me to nominate just one for each cathegory as there are so many invaluble people who are not…
Christmas is a time when we come together with our families or share the joy of the kids at home or remember people who need our help, affection or concern. For us, the EFL teachers, Christmas is a time when we try to do fun activities with our classes. Watching the movie, About a boy,…
Web 2.0 tools I’ve used so far… Web 2.0 tools are great help to jazz up your classrooms, to help students practise the language, to motivate the digital natives with their own weapons and to boost creativity. Nowadays the more I learn, the more motivated I become and I’d like to share the ones which I’ve…
Today I started my lessons with a warm-up activity. It was fun and my students enjoyed writing sentences. Even the weakest ones were able to write great sentences.It was an idea I got from here .( just click on the words and phrases and see what happens) Write a simple sentence on the board. We started…
I’ve been teaching English for 20 years and today I had my first workshop. I wanted to prepare a session from which everybody would find something to use. I learned some of these activities from ELT conferences or colleagues who were willing to share or from books or websites. I’ll write some of these activities…
I learned this activity from an ELT seminar that I attended years ago but unfortunately I won’t be able to give you whose idea was that. It can be Jeremy Harmer but I’m sorry I really don’t remember. It’s a good warm up and a filler. I’m about to give a workshop at British Council…
I have got this idea from http://www.wetheteachers.com/viewfiles.php?fid=1003 and adapted it to my class. In our new unit our vocabulary topic is MUSIC and I thought something similar to this one will help students to think and talk about their lives. I prepared a poster from glogster and wrote my three assignments on it. One of them was…
In our school, this year we are trying the project based learning. In each term a school subject is chosen and the project topic is given to the students. Then we group them, give all the necessary meeting dates, deadlines, rubrics, etc. We ask them to find and generate a problem. Usually, in class we…
