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…
Resolutions are boring. Yes, I know but New Year means new hopes… It is a good time to start over and continue, especially in such challenging times. This year has been very tough. Pandemic, being away from our loved ones, not being able to touch, not being able to hug… In fact, all these dystopic…
This week I’m teaching Past Simple Tense so I decided to add a creative activity where students will force themselves to use the vocabulary they have learned so far. I wrote a short story in past tense but this activity can be easily adapted to all the grammar topics. So here is my story: Target…
2020 is the 80th anniversary of the British Council in Turkey. They wanted to celebrate the anniversary with a project called ”Crossing paths: 80 years of changing lives” where they shared how British Council changed the lives of 80 women. I’m honoured to be chosen one of these 80 women and I’m happy that I…
Image credit: pixabay I love using songs and I just prepared a lesson with ‘Wonderful Tonight’ as a follow up activity for Present Simple Tense. Here you can find the worksheet for the song. I’m also adding a few more songs that can be used to teach Present Simple Tenses.
Online teaching taught me more in one term than years of regular teaching sometimes do. The first term of our 4-term academic year has just ended. We’ll start a brand new term on Monday. During the 1st term, I’ve tried many things. Some worked well, some didn’t, some needed an update, some needed slight changes….
