One of the most problematic areas while studying English is learning vocabulary. There are some vocabulary games I’ve already written on this blog but I’ve compiled a few more here as these games may help remembering new vocabulary by repetition. So here is the list of games that can be adapted to any level and…
In my previous blog post, I wrote about Substack and Canva as newsletter creation tools. I think newsletters can be a powerful tool in the English language classroom. By getting creative and thinking outside the box, we can use newsletters to improve our students’ language skills and keep them engaged in the classroom. Here are…
While revising vocab, if you’ve realized how much your students love to play Taboo, here is a fab tool that you will love a lot. I know there are a lot of websites that offer Taboo cards for language learner. However, this one is different. Taboo Cards allows you to create the card that you’ll…
Make some cards with the letters of the alphabet on. You can discard the less common ones such as x and z. (or you can use an online random wheel generator) Shuffle the card and get learners to select 6 cards (or use the wheel, spin and choose 6 letters) Write the selected letters on…
Level: A1 Age: All Materials: Pen, paper (crayons with younger learners) Time: 40-45 minutes Skills: writing, reading, speaking, listening Tell students to think about a place. It can be a street, park, beach, room, etc. Tell them to write what they see in this place using there is/ there are and prepositions of place.Monitor and…
Here is a very quick interactive activity for the online classes. Write some correct and some grammatically wrong sentences on Jamboard. Arrange pages for the teams according to the size of your class. Tell your students that they will sort the sentences as correct or wrong in breakout rooms in teams. Here is the link…
If you don’t know where you are going, any road will get you there. Lewis Carroll From today on, I’m going to add lesson ideas that can be used in our virtual classrooms. Here is a writing activity to revise tenses. Use an empty street photo as a prompt for this activity. Create a…
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…
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…
