Some of the activities I wrote need to be updated because of the online teaching. I had written a few posts about using photos in class. Today I updated one of them. Here is a caption writing activity for the virtual classroom. The previous posts are here , here and here Tell students to take a photo…
My main is to write this post is to find ways to make the online classroom more like our usual face-to-face classes. I’ll add some websites and apps but I wanted to avoid the quiz-makers, game-makers, etc. Here you can find what I’ve come up with. Please add more 🙂 1. Start the day with…
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…
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. Use an empty street photo as a prompt for this activity. Create a…
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 things made us realize how actually precious…
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:…
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…
IImage 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. A Hard Day’s Night Beatles…
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. In this post I’d like to share what worked well, what I need to do…
