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….
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…
