image from #eltpics via @mkofab In December, I had the chance to listen to Steven Krashen at YTU ELT symposium. He talked about the importance of reading, how he became a good reader and what narrow reading is. You can read Marisa Constantinides’ fabulous post on Dr Krashen’s talk here. That was the time I…
I know I am a bit late for the following lesson ideas but for a while I’ve been a bit reluctant to write anything. I hope I will keep my blog alive in 2013 … Now here I go … A lesson for the next Christmas Christmas sounds like — Christmas tastes like —- Christmas…
Schools started. I have new classes and I have classes that I know from last year. We started working hard. We, as the English Department of our school, prepared lessons to motivate our students. With my year 12 students, who will graduate and take the university exam, we read ‘Go and Open the Door’, a…
I found this activity hidden in one of my idea notebooks a few minutes ago while trying to organize my files. Ask students to write a question on a piece of paper. Tell them to fold it down and pass it to the next student. The next students will also write a question and fold…
One of my favourite writers for the ‘Reading Class’ is Roald Dahl. I’ve been using his short stories for almost a decade and the students have always loved them. I just came across with this pdf http://www.msad54.org/district/literacyspecialist/pdf/blooms.pdf But you can also get more ideas for using Bloom’s taxonomy in reading classes which I find…
Pub Quiz on the Net Target Language: Passive Voice, Simple Past Tense Level: A1, A2 Materials: ( colourful) pen, paper, internet connection, Team students according to the size of your class. Give them categories as inventions, literature, discoveries, music, etc. Tell them in teams they will search on the web and come up with 10…
We are about to end another academic year. In some ways it was fruitful and in other ways, I had some disappointments. Some students did very well. Some, however, were happy with their moderate improvement. Every year I ask students to write feedback twice. One two months later we meet and one at the end…
I’m so much exhausted these days. There are many thing at school that we have to do. Our Comenius partners visit us next week. Actually it is very exciting to plan everything. We have to deal with arrivals, presentations, meetings, day tips, etc. We are even planning a Europe Day celebration on May 9th. I’m…
Warmers, Fillers and 1st Week Activities The theme of 24th edition of the efl/esl/ell blog carnival is Warmers, Fillers and 1st Week Activities. As in some parts of the world we are excited to meet our new students, I’m hoping that we will have some different activities to start the year other than the ones we…
Sometimes questions are more important than answers. Nancy Willard I sometimes feel one of the most ignored area in my classroom is practising asking questions. When I started teaching English, there was a trendy activity to ask questions. That was Find the question for the underlined answer which was very mechanical and boring and while checking my…
The blurb on the back describes “Essential TEFL ”, written by James Jenkin and Emma Foers, as a source ‘Crammed with 300 activities, teaching aids and full guide to English grammar’. The book aims to support the new teachers and help them build confidence in planning lessons in their first years in TEFL. It is…
image taken from here This is the 3rd and the last post of graded-reader-ideas. If you want to add another activity to this list, I will be very happy. 21. Tell students to list all the interesting words, phrases and expressions or all the new words, phrases and expressions from the book and create a…
