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…
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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…
