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…
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…
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….
1. Writing chain stories or even writing chain poems. If you decide to do the chain poem writing activity, then give them a skeleton If I drink coffee, I’ll stay awake tonight If I stay awake tonight, I’ll fall asleep in the morning. And if I fall asleep in the morning, My teacher will…
We were working on narrative tenses and the writing task of the lesson was ‘writing a story’. My class is small and it’s a real mixed-ability class. although it’s small, it sometimes takes very ages for the students to master something. The book we’re using organized the activity very well – first making students to know…
After studying descriptive adjectives. I told my students to describe each person in their group by choosing an adjective for each letter of their names. They worked eagerly to find lots of positive adjectives to describe their classmates. Then I decided to write the names on post-it notes and design a simple poster for the…
Starfall itself is an amazing site but if you click on this link, you will be taken to an amazing list of activities and games. All About Me is a fun game on starfall that your young learner will create a character and hear how to say the words. On toytheatre.com you can find games, stories…
