As a language teacher, I try to find fun and engaging activities that can help my students improve their speaking skills. Here is an activity I’ve tried recently with my 1 on 1 student. However, it can be done in the class as a warm-up, filler, or energizer or even to revise grammar such as…
Recently I’ve been busy giving a lot of feedback and there are times I really find it very challenging. Reading a lot of papers is hard work. However, the content of the feedback is more challenging than reading the students’ papers. That’s why I just want to focus on giving feedback for a while and…
Friend or Foe? Understanding the Pros and Cons of AI Language Generation People have been writing, talking, tweeting about ChatGPT. Some are concerned, some are happy to use it as a tool. I even see on Twitter that many speakers at conferences started to talk about it and I’ve been playing with it for a…
In my previous blog post, I wrote about Substack and Canva as newsletter creation tools. I think newsletters can be a powerful tool in the English language classroom. By getting creative and thinking outside the box, we can use newsletters to improve our students’ language skills and keep them engaged in the classroom. Here are…
In this post, I will write about two tools that can be used to create newsletters. Substack is an online platform. It allows writers to send digital newsletters directly to subscribers.Subtrack is free but authors can decide to make subscription to their newsletter free or paid. You can use Subtrack as a blogging platform too….
Today in my reading class, we played a vocabulary game before we started doing the reading activities. Students enjoyed the game a lot and when I gave them a vocabulary exercise at the end of the lesson, they managed to complete it with ease. Here is the game: List the words you want to pre-teach….
Some ‘cool’ speaking, grammar and vocabulary activities Mingling activities can be fun, mingling activities can also be a burden. Some of us love them, some of us hate them. Even during PD sessions, conferences, etc when the trainer, speaker wants us to stand up and mingle around, we tend to sulk. Well, bearing all these…
Make some cards with the letters of the alphabet on. You can discard the less common ones such as x and z. (or you can use an online random wheel generator) Shuffle the card and get learners to select 6 cards (or use the wheel, spin and choose 6 letters) Write the selected letters on…
I’d like to share a few activities that I’ve been using with my classes. These activities can be used as ‘getting to know’ activities at the beginning of the new terms. Level A1/A2 Age: All Songs and Movies Tell your students to list the titles of books films songs TV series that they know…
SKELL is a simple tool that allows students and teachers of English to quickly check if a phrase or word is being used correctly. It is free. Simply type a word and press the button. Example sentences, collocations, and synonyms for the word you typed in the search box will appear. The tool will be…
