My door is on the roof. I climb with a rope. I have stairs from moon. (Maral, age 11) One of the most favourite activities we do in class is creative writing. It is great for revising grammar and vocabulary. It is also great for unleashing their hidden talents. Although they sometimes complain about drawing, they…
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”….
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 then tell them to organize their thoughts…
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…
We all have more motivated, fast thinking students in our classes. Often we feel guilty that they can’t advance more as they wait for their classmates to finish the tasks given. I got the idea of more tasks for fast finishers from Pinterest pins. Some teachers prepared posters for them, some had jars with reviewing…
I’d like to share a guided writing activity that I adapted for my classes. Give students a card and ask them to read the instructions. Tell them they are going to invent a story about what happened to the characters on their cards. Give them the pre-prepared questions and ask them to answer the…
I’ve decided to prepare song lessons that I can use in class. I’m planning to share them regularly. If you love using songs in the class, please visit the blog for a new song lesson every week. I will also be very happy to hear your ideas. A new song lesson https://www.box.com/embed/0mzx9s6hu98lcns.swf
Have you come across this hilarious site.? “Every day, write a letter that will never be sent to a person who does or does not exist, or to a number of people who do or do not exist.” The sentence I copied and pasted from Language is a Virus is a writing task. Isn’t…
1. Choose a poem to read with your students. 2. Write the title on the board and ask students to predict what the poem is about. 3. Divide the class in groups. 4. Give each group a copy of a word cloud you prepared previously. 5. Ask students to write a poem using the…
I really love ‘Go and Open the Door‘ by Miroslav Holub and when I come across with it in Creative Poetry Writing with a great activity and as we were doing conditionals, even if, as long as and some other conjunctions I wanted to do the activity with my students. I’ll quickly summarize it. Tell your students…
