Another school year is about to finish and we are about to announce the successful students. Yesterday with some colleagues we had a chat and found out how much we knew about each kid. Most of us know about their problems at home and unfortunately the majority of the kids do have problems. Some of…
As I said before, I really enjoyed this blog reading task partly because I love doing homework 🙂 and it allows me to discover more.  If you like, make a cup of fresh coffee and do some extensive reading. I’ll start with Murphy’s Law for EFL teachers from Natasa’s blog. Natasa Bozic Grojic writes how…
 http://www.glogster.com/flash/flash_loader.swf?ver=1275302300 If you are also about to finish the school year and need something else other than your course material, quotes are always good for wonderful activities. What can you do with them? 1. Write some of them on pieces of paper and stick to the walls and do wall dictation. 2. Jumble some of…
   On June 1st, we celebrated the Pen Pal Day together. This time we were more crowded. Actually we planned to be able to do it all together, 5 countries at the same time but time differences and our working hours didn’t allow us to do so. Arjana, Ana Maria and Guido got connected…
 When the schools are about to finish, I tend to do more fun activities instead of grammar revisions. Some of these activities are from books, workshops, colleagues, TV programmes and some of them are adaptations. Here I go: 1. Imagine and write. Play some instrumental music. Tell students to imagine a character and jot down the…
The blog competition ended and most of my friends have been voted for the top ranks.Here you can see the results.I’m so much honoured to be on the same list with these great bloggers, who continuously inspire, motivate, collaborateand support. I’m learning loads of things from them. I want to congratulate all of them. Actually…
Life is a lot like jazz… it’s best when you improvise – George Gershwin Sometimes my mind doesn’t allow me to enjoy the moment. Last week a group of actors from a drama club visited our school and they performed with our students. They improvised in the school yard. They started with some warm ups…
 This week we, teachers on blogosphere, have a homework assigned by Darren Elliot. I really like this idea as Mike Harrison said ‘We need a project to uncover all these hidden gems’ The good thing about this project and It’s worth taking a look at this blog is we have a chance to examine the…
My Workshop at Bilgi University In the session, I talked about why we should use songs in EFL classes. Music is everywhere in our lives. We listen to songs when we are happy, angry, sad or when we need inspiration or when we want to relax. We go out of our homes with our songs, we…
 image  http://www.flickr.com/photos/chitran365/4290748046/ I’ve been experiencing wonderful things recently. First, my friend Janet Bianchini tagged my blog as a blog which is worth reading. It was fabulous. I was thrilled. When I started blogging in September, I wasn’t sure what to write. However, when days passed and when I realised my posts were being read,…
