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…
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…
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…
Reading Tara Benwell’s blog post was so much fun that I immediately wanted to create my own list. See my kids grow up I want to see them grow up and find the right job and the person for them:-) Learn Italian I have always wanted to learn Italian but I can’t find the time,…
Yes, I’m soooo thrilled that some of my students have been doing great jobs on their own on the blogosphere. This year we read The Great Gatsby with grade 11. They had to prepare a project trying to relate a topic with all the lessons they were taking. As they were the language department students, we…
The idea is an inspiration from a student of mine who added a comment on the class blog to the link I added there and Ken Wilson’s asking on twitter if there were any Elvis fans out there and then I thought ‘yay, I have great ideas for the first lesson of the new decade. We…
This year was different. Now I feel much better. I know I’m a good teacher. (that’s what my husband calls me) However, I thought I was stuck somewhere trying to motivate myself. I was thinking I was tired. (may be needed a break) I was thinking I needed praise. (my students often wrote thank you notes…
I’ve been teaching English for 20 years and today I had my first workshop. I wanted to prepare a session from which everybody would find something to use. I learned some of these activities from ELT conferences or colleagues who were willing to share or from books or websites. I’ll write some of these activities…
