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…
Well, I’m so happy that I’m teaching English. It just broadens my mind. When I see that my students are eager to learn I feel motivated. It’s been a very long time since I started to teach but it’s amazing to see how much I love it. Being in the class gives me the strength to…
I think writing is very important because when you write you can improve yourself. Writing games are also great activities. Here is one for you. Associations You can do it as a whole class activity if you have a small group. If you have more than 20 students may be you can do it as…
Hello everyone, I’ve been teaching English since 1989. I started teaching in the 20th century but I want to be a 21st century teacher. I’m sure this blog will be a great opportunity for me to share what I know and to learn what I don’t know…
