A Journey in TEFL – Page 7 – Ideas for Teaching English

dictogloss | grammar | grammar games | ideas | lessons for teachers | present continuous tense | TEFL | TESOL | Using photos in EFL | web 2.0 tools | writing games

An Online Dictogloss
Byevasimkesyan November 21, 2020

I love using photos when teaching Present Continuous Tense. They provide a lot of opportunities to use the structure meaningfully. In this post I want to describe an activity for the online classes. Choose a painting with a lot of people and activities. ( I used ‘A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande…

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news | websites

Learn With News
Byevasimkesyan November 17, 2020

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efl

Blooket
Byevasimkesyan November 6, 2020

Students especially young learners like games with rewards and challenges. That’s why Blooket can be a new alternative for you to create revision exercises in disguise. Question sets can be imported or created easily with Set Builder. You can also explore Blooket sets and export from other users. Blooket is another tool like Kahoot,…

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wordwall

Words on the wall #wordwall
Byevasimkesyan October 31, 2020

Wordwall is one of the platforms that I’ve been using since we went online. The idea is simple sign up and 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 the activity…

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correction | editing

How to mark your essays easily
Byevasimkesyan September 27, 2020

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…

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Flipped Teaching | remote teaching

Teaching with Quizizz
Byevasimkesyan September 21, 2020

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…

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CPD | e-learning | edtech | remote learning | remote teaching | teaching | technology | virtual classroom | virtual teaching | young learners

Getting ready for my remote teaching adventure
Byevasimkesyan September 13, 2020

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…

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CPD | Distance Learning | FutureLearn | improvisation | MOOCs

CPD for Remote Teaching
Byevasimkesyan August 5, 2020

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…

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Getting To Know You (Online Style)
Byevasimkesyan July 23, 2020

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…

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Distance Learning | homework | too/enough

Jamming In The Virtual Classroom
Byevasimkesyan April 22, 2020

Jamboard is an online interactive whiteboard tool that can easily be used to in distance learning. The App can easily be reached from Google Drive. Click on Jamboard and you’re ready to create your first board. Tap the orange + to start. Now you are ready to use the board. Choose the background. I really…

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