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….
Dictogloss is a powerful EFL classroom activity that transforms listening into a collaborative learning experience. In this online dictogloss lesson, students work together to reconstruct a text while developing listening, speaking, grammar, and vocabulary skills. How to Use an Online Dictogloss Activity in EFL Classes I love using photos when teaching Present Continuous Tense. They…
Wordwall is one of the platforms that I’ve been using since we went online. The idea is simple sign up and start creating. There are really cool templates. You can create an activity on a template but then you can switch the templates if you want. You can also print the activities. I usually assign…
If you are not correcting the writing assignments on Google Drive, there is a very simple way to do so. First download the paper on the desktop. Save as pdf Open the tools on pdf Click on ‘Fill and Sign’ You will see a bunch of tools on the top of the page. Underline, circle…
I’m very excited about the new feature of Quizizz. It now allows teachers to prepare lessons on Quizizz. You can prepare your whole lesson there; warmers, tutorials, explanations, reading passages and then if you like to ask a question, add a poll, you can do so. It still has the ‘gaming’ option. You can follow…
Since the schools closed, I’ve been reading articles, watching webinars, attending short courses to tackle with the difficulty of remote teaching. As we all were thrown into the big ocean of online teaching in March, we tried to save the day using the knowledge and tools we already had. However, things have changed now. We…
I spent some time attending courses at FutureLearn this summer and I found them very useful and inspiring. As the coming academic year will most probably be a more hybrid system, these courses will be helpful to you too. So if you haven’t attended them, have a look at those courses: How to Teach Online…
We are all getting ready for a new school year, which will be totally different from what we are used to. Waiting for this term, I realised I’m more confident than March. I’m leaving here a very quick and handy ‘Getting to know you’ activity which I’m planning to use on the first day of…
