2 AI tools to create lessons for your learners Some believe AI tools are creepy, some believe they are just tools. They’ve been with us for a couple of years and now we are witnessing how they are improving. There was a time in the past when I started discovering Web 2.0 tools to use…
I really don’t remember where learned this idea from but found it written in one of my notebooks in the summer while cleaning and tidying my shelves. I added an online version too in the brackets. Hope you’ll find it useful 🙂 At the start of the lesson, encourage your learners to come to the…
This week I’m teaching Past Simple Tense so I decided to add a creative activity where students will force themselves to use the vocabulary they have learned so far. I wrote a short story in past tense but this activity can be easily adapted to all the grammar topics. So here is my story: Target…
image credit #eltpics, @ij64 As a matter of fact I had forgotten this song until I listened to it again at the opening ceremony of the London Olympics and for a while I kept hearing it in my mind and then I realized I can use it in the class as well. When I listened to…
Part of the series From my PLN Music is everywhere, it surrounds us from the moment we are born – well even before that;) My father is a music lover so my earliest childhood memories revolve around singing, dancing and „making” my own music. I loved to record songs or my covers of rhymes;) I…
Well, partly because I have classes with no football enthusiasm and as schools close this Friday, I can’t do any World Cup themed lessons with my students. I believe the event itself can be a great resource for a speaking activity. However, there are other great things which can be done while the world…
With my intermediate and upper-intermediate students,we read readers in the classroom. They are abridged but with some activities, we try to analyze the texts as much as possible. This is how I assigned them after we read The Grapes of Wrath 1. Choose a character and write a description 2. Write a book review. 3. Write…
In my month themes I wrote I’d like to do something related with the Oscars as we all know the nominees now. Today I assigned my students to prepare small talks on it. For these short presentations my students will have 3 minutes to talk. I prepare a rubric to mark their presentations too. They…
