I realised I mostly wrote about quick games, fillers or warmers that may help the teachers to motivate the students or change the phase or the pace of a lesson. I believe these activities are great to present and practice a new language. During the activities, students will be more involved, enthused and eager to do…
When I read Emma Herrod’s post on planning a lesson, I started thinking about my own style. Emma’s post asks a lot of useful question to the teacher and there are wonderful contributions to the post in the comments sections. I really do agree with most of them and I had some more ideas how…
We all talk about the privileges of having a PLN and we agree that twitter is one of the most powerful tools for the educators to build your PLN. If you have a PLN, it means that you have a constant professional development network. However, if you think that twitter is just for professional development…
The children now love luxury; they have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise. Children are now tyrants, not the servants of their households. They no longer rise when elders enter the room. They contradict their parents, chatter before company, gobble up dainties at the…
adapted with flickr image Schools have just closed and a nice summer holiday waits. Reading will be my most favourite activity in the long, lazy afternoons. This year was very fruitful for me. So many things have happened and so many things have changed in my life. This is because of the things I’ve been…
Twitter enables all of us to reach fabulous links. These are my recent favourites. I know it is possible to survive as a teacher without twitter, nings, PLNs yet teachers should know they are missing great stuff because they just have a PLN at school. 1. Braingle is a site where you can find…
Part of the series from my PLN It’s not rocket science, you may well be saying to yourself. Of course, filing your materials in A-Z format is the obvious way to keep organised! Well, not everyone may do this, so I would like to share some tips which have helped me over the years…
Joyce is one of the most difficult authors. It is not easy to understand him so he is not usually in high school teachers’ lists. However, if you have a class who loves reading short stories, you can give it a try to Dubliners. I’m not saying that we can read all the stories but…
Well, partly because I have classes with no football enthusiasm and as schools close this Friday, I can’t do any World Cup themed lessons with my students. I believe the event itself can be a great resource for a speaking activity. However, there are other great things which can be done while the world…
In project based learning we expect our students to create projects. Students are supposed to research and link all the subjects together and present their projects with the use of technology. This year we tried to use it in our classes but we still have some question marks. Should we always define a problem…
