I think most of you will agree with me that drilling can be boring and it is very old-fashioned. It is mechanical and it doesn’t promote any critical and creative thinking. However, don’t you ever think they work with certain classes, students. I couldn’t catch yesterday’s eltchat but as I followed from the tweets, it…
I have a group of students who are studying for the university entrance exam. These students will also take the language test too because they want to study TEFL or literature. Mostly we do more serious work in order to be ready for the vital test. However, there are times we need to take a…
image source Being a parent is a big challenge. Bringing up twins is twice a big challenge and if you are a teacher and a mother of twins then life is more difficult for you once they started school. You know the rights, wrongs. You spend days, nights trying not to compare them. You…
After writing the fun activities for present simple and present continuous, I decided to continue compiling all the fun activities that I’ve been using for years here. I’ve just done future tenses so I think it’s time to think about the fun follow ups. Fortunetelling: Pair them and ask them to write a dialogue between…
When I went to the computer lab with my young learners, I realised that creating something using web 2.0 tools won’t very easy with them as I only see them once a week. I’m just thinking about tools that don’t require registration and e-mail confirmation as it will be too time consuming. They are…
image source here What does ‘being a teacher’ stand for? Does it only mean a person who teaches? A person who teaches what? Is it that important to teach maths, science, English,etc? When do we lose the kids? Do they all want to start school and learn immediately what he they have been taught? What…
For almost 16 years I haven’t had young learners. This year I have a group of 10 year olds. I just see them once a week and our idea was to give them a chance to chat in English. Their level of English is so basic, as you can guess .However, their enthusiasm is…
image taken from here Everyday we come across with a tweet on whether coursebooks are evil or not. We even eltchatted about it. As an EFl teacher, I love ‘EFL course books’ and most of my colleagues who are not teaching English are jealous of us beacuse our course books are full of ideas, resources,…
Improvisations part 2 Sometimes I adapt activities from TV shows, games, etc. The following activity is from a drama group called ‘Mahser-i Cumbus’. While watching their performance, I usually find great ideas for my classes. It sounds a bit confusing but it really is fun. Student A stands up and mimes. While miming she…
http://www.glogster.com/flash/flash_loader.swf?ver=1285502229 I mentioned this activity in my previous post and today I asked my students tothink about their favourite objects and write how these object spend the day. While they were doing, I realised this would be great with glogster. So the next lesson, we went to the computer lab and my students created their first…
