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I am working with graded readers, short stories and novels with my classes. I was also preparing my talk for TESOL France and looking for some new ideas to share, I designed the following lesson inspired from Chaz Pugliese’s Gossip activity from the book Being Creative. The activity may not sound similar but while reading it, I…
“Let us go singing as far as we go: the road will be less tedious.” Virgil Choices are important in our lives. Sometimes there are times we regret, there are times we pray for what we’ve chosen. I have a group of mixed-ability students in grade 11 studying mostly languages. Some of them are not…
If you are learning English in the 21st century, you are lucky because you will have numerous alternatives to practise the things you’ve been learning. There are thousands of great sites which will help you, but if you don’t have a place to store these cool sites, then you’ll lose track so I will suggest…
1. Each person is given a sheet of paper with a series of instructions to follow. Each student’s instructions should be different. Tell them to stand up and mingle until you stop them. Then ask them to share their answers. Your instructions can be as “Find someone who …” 2. Give each student a post-it note….
I am not a fan of online games. I don’t play any but my son spends most of his free time playing online games. I have lots of students who do the same and when the subject is online games, even the quietest one starts to speak. A few years ago I had three students…
When you tell your students “You three work together”, there will probably be some among the majority who will complain and tell that they don’t want to work with A or B in that group. They will sulk, they won’t contribute, isolate themselves or even worse they won’t let the other members work. However; if…
This was not the first train the trainer course I attended but may be the magic was the magicians I (we) met there. I attended SLTEP, a two-week train the trainer program ran by Sabanci University School of Languages. With our amazing tutors, Deniz Kurtoglu Eken, Meral Guceri and Sharon Celtek, we dived into the…
For this guided collaborative story writing activity, find a photo story, pictures that can be used as sequences or some pictures that can form a story. Make enough copies for your students. Put students in groups. Give each group the 1st picture Tell them to brainstorm anything that comes into their minds first and…
AnswerGarden is a new tool that you can use in the classroom for barinstorming or getting feedback. You don’t have to sign up, but when you create a poll or a question to think. The website asks you to put a password on it and then you can decide how long it will be open….
Level: All Age: All Target Language : Narrative Tenses, Adjectives to describe emotions, feelings, etc. Give each student a handout with the chart below. Play the sound effects you chose Ask the students to fill in the following chart What do…
Last week, we were reading a text on pyramids and pharaohs and one of my students said, “Let’s go and see it and come back here in the next lesson.” And I said, “OK, we’re just going to walk around the pyramids in Egypt and south America.” Thanks to the IWB and the internet, we…
