Reading is a must for me. I feel guilty when I can’t find time to read. I feel stressed if I can’t finish a book I have started reading. I know we grew in a world where we had be told that the books a the best friends and things are not the same anymore….
Level: Any Materials: power point, images of holiday places Target language: Past tenses Ask students to create a 2-slide powerpoint. On one slide they will upload a photo they have taken from a holiday. On the second slide, they will write a short text describing the picture. They may answer the following questions to write…
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…
During the Olympics I will not be able to do any lessons in the class as we started our summer holiday but there will be friends around the world that they will have classes while the GAMES are happening. You can find some ideas and printables from the following links Eslflow English for games Create…
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…
It is mid-term break now. At the moment I’m enjoying myself reading blogathon posts and doing some preperation for the first week of the school. February will be a hectic month and I have to pre-plan everything. Reported Speech is the grammar point that we will study but I want to challenge them with something…
Here are some activities you can use when teaching descriptions. Characteristics: Agree on a list of 5 people known to students Dictate words and phrases which describe the people chosen Students write the descriptions you dictate beneath the name of the person they think is referred to. Rights/ Wrongs Choose something to describe. Tell…
I think the life Steve Jobs led, his achievements, his dreams, his talks and the gadgets he revolutionised and presented us will teach many lessons to the teenagers. They have a long life with dreams and opportunites so I decided to take this article to class tomorrow and prepared a lesson on it. You can…
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…
With my year 10 students we will start reading Jamaica Inn (level 5) and as a pre-reading task I prepared the glog and at the lab they researched and answered the questions. They are very curious about the story now and they are looking forward to reading it. http://www.glogster.com/flash/flash_loader.swf?ver=1300206555 I’d like to hear your ideas…
I guess you all know that I love using songs in lessons. This week I’ll teach giving advice, talking about regrets. The target language is the modals for that. I decided to start with a song. When I prepare I will also share but after I tweeted ‘Dear PLN, can u suggest me a song…
1. Choose a poem to read with your students. 2. Write the title on the board and ask students to predict what the poem is about. 3. Divide the class in groups. 4. Give each group a copy of a word cloud you prepared previously. 5. Ask students to write a poem using the…
