September 13th is the Roald Dahl day and this year it’s his 100th birthday. Regular readers know that I’m fond of Roald Dahl stories and I love using them in class. I just wanted to bring some links that you’d like to use with your classes. Here the schools are not open yet but I’ll…
September is here and another school year is on its way. I’m just enjoying the last few lazy days reading and planning ahead. I’m reading “The Little Paris Bookshop” by Nina George at the moment. I loved the book. Not only for the plot, not only it is set in Paris along the River Seine…
I’ll share a quick drama activity I learned from our drama club while performing at an event at school. Begin with the volunteers. Explain the rules. Tell students that you will shout a number from 1 to 3 and she/he will sit on that chair and start telling the story according to the emotion written…
May is round the corner. This means another school is about to end. Here you can find some revision games and activities that you’d like to use. When I’m 65 (to revise tenses, time clauses) Team your students Prepare small cards, on small cards write random numbers such as 18, 22, 56, 38, etc. Put…
Last week, with a group of twelve-year olds we had great fun reading a short story. It was our first meeting so I started with a getting to know activity which came from freshly Leo Selivan’s latests blog post. Kids loved drawing stick figures and introducing themselves in third person. Then we read the story…
I haven’t updated my blog for ages and I feel a bit guilty about it. However, I have some good reasons. I’d like to share something really important for me with you. I just started my own business, a Thought Shop = Düşünce Dükkanı in Turkish (as I also love to call it). Dream2Edu is a…
I’d like to share a quick activity I’ve done with my students. After reading a short story or a novel in the class or if the students are assigned to read their own choices, you can use this activity. Ask the students to write Twitter bios for each character, (or the ones they’ve chosen) in…
Using photos in EFL Classroom, part 3 We are all stories, right? We tell a new story, the same story, another story all the time and we do it in the class too. Today I’m going to mention activities that can be used to create new stories for the theme “Using Photos in EFL Classes”….
Padlet Galleries If you are working on a “theme” that you think can be photographed easily, you can ask your students take photos and add them to the Padlet wall you’ve created for that specific “theme” and ask students to write what made them to take the photo, how they felt about that photo. You…
“Photography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it still.” Dorothea Lange Visuals are useful and powerful tools to enhance the use of language, combining the images and the concepts they refer in the minds of the learners. Photos, as all visual images, also encourage the learners to predict and guess the…
I was in London to attend Bett Show 2015 last week. Presenting at Bett was a great experience but being there, visiting the exhibition was even greater than that. The moment I stepped into the venue, I realized this was something I was not ready to experience but a few minutes later I got used…
Or Chinese Whisper Sentences: How to Run a Chinese Whisper Dictation I have to admit something. For years, I was not a fan of dictation. The word alone brought back a very specific memory: sitting in primary school, trying to memorise long texts at home, then writing them out from memory in class while the…
