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…
Energizers for online and hybrid classrooms can make a real difference to how a lesson feels. My main aim in this post is to find ways to make the online classroom feel more like our usual face-to-face classes. I’ll add some websites and apps, but I wanted to avoid the quiz-makers and game-makers you’ve probably…
After I listened to ”7 Types of Rest That Every Person Needs”, I decided to prepare a lesson on it. I tried to simplify it using Rewordify but it didn’t work. I tried to simpliy it a bit changing a few words and also I shortened the speech too. However, I used Rewordify to prepare…
I’ve just discovered this great tool called THINKIO. It’s a free and simple tool which enables teachers to share exercises with students, view and mark online. Upload your exercise as a pdf or an image file and share the link with your students. Once your students write their names, do and save their homework,…
If you don’t know where you are going, any road will get you there. Lewis Carroll From today on, I’m going to add lesson ideas that can be used in our virtual classrooms. Here is a writing activity to revise tenses. This writing activity uses an empty street photo as a prompt to help students…
