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 it for a while and in…
Understanding the Pros and Cons of ChatGPT 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 while and thinking about writing…
In my previous blog post, I wrote about Substack and Canva as newsletter creation tools. I think they 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…
Here’s what I know about English teaching at the start of a new term: a few simple activities 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 What I Know About English: Getting-to-Know-You Activities Songs and…
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…
Tell students to think about a place. It can be a street, park, beach, room, etc. Tell them to write what they see in this place using there is/ there are and prepositions of place.Monitor and help with the problems they have. When they finish their descriptions. Put them in pairs. Tell them they will…
Have you thought about swapping the view of your window on a website? I discovered Window Swap last year and I just loved it. It may be because I love doors and windows, or it may be because I can’t travel anymore because of the pandemic, or it may be because I’m a teacher and…
I really don’t remember where learned this idea from but found it written in one of my notebooks in the summer while cleaning and tidying my shelves. I added an online version too in the brackets. Hope you’ll find it useful 🙂 At the start of the lesson, encourage your learners to come to the…
