http://www.goear.com/files/external.swf?file=baff2c7 Goear is a great site which allows you to listen to music while you are surfing on the net or cooking or checking homework. It can also be used in the classroom. You don’t have to download every song that you want to use in the class. It also works well on the class…
Reading blogs is a wonderful activity. It just doesn’t help us learn new things but it also gives inspirations and also a wish or a reason to write.When I read the confessions of a less than a perfect teacher, I thought about my evolution. And now I have a reason to write. When I…
http://www.goear.com/files/external.swf?file=5fe7d01 GO AND OPEN THE DOOR Go and open the door. May be outside there’s a tree, or a wood, a garden, or a magic city. Go and open the door. Maybe a dog’s rummaging Maybe you’ll see a face, or an eye, or the picture of a picture. Go and open the…
http://www.glogster.com/flash/flash_loader.swf?ver=1257936154 Will this glog inspire you, motivate you to join us?
Well, it’s been only a few months since I started blogging and I’ve learned so many things from a huge group of great educators. I feel myself happy as I have a superb PLN. It’s difficult for me to nominate just one for each cathegory as there are so many invaluble people who are not…
Christmas is a time when we come together with our families or share the joy of the kids at home or remember people who need our help, affection or concern. For us, the EFL teachers, Christmas is a time when we try to do fun activities with our classes. Watching the movie, About a boy,…
Web 2.0 tools I’ve used so far… Web 2.0 tools are great help to jazz up your classrooms, to help students practise the language, to motivate the digital natives with their own weapons and to boost creativity. Nowadays the more I learn, the more motivated I become and I’d like to share the ones which…
Today I started my lessons with a warm-up activity. It was fun and my students enjoyed writing sentences. Even the weakest ones were able to write great sentences.It was an idea I got from here .( just click on the words and phrases and see what happens) Write a simple sentence on the board. We started…
Since I found out glogster, I’ve been using it to assign projects, to introduce topics. My students also like it and whenever they are supposed to present something they use it. On the walls, in the corridores of our school, there are glogs.Students prepare them not just for English but also for the other subjects. It’s such…
I’ve been teaching English for 20 years and today I had my first workshop. I wanted to prepare a session from which everybody would find something to use. I learned some of these activities from ELT conferences or colleagues who were willing to share or from books or websites. I’ll write some of these activities…
