These new kids need more public speaking skills than us. They will work on projects in teams, they will present their projects and they will need to be more confident in front of an audience. Thus, as teachers we can encourage our students to speak in front of an audience by assigning weekly projects. Friday…
Vintage Everyday is a site I came across via Read.Now.Learn.Go, a fabulous site updated almost everyday, full of links to very interesting sites that you can use in the class. I was thinking about an activity that my students could do before we start working on narrative tenses in the class and this is my plan…
The fifth mobility in our Comenius Project was to Calabria, a beautiful small town in the Southern Italy. Our main task was to perform the plays our students wrote based on their short stories written from the same story beginning. We watched the plays on Wednesday, 12th 2012. It was amazing to see how creative…
image taken here It all started with the reading text in our course book called ‘Boys R Us’, Going for Gold, Upper-int. (Longman) The story was about a teenager who was a reluctant student but changed when a teacher assigned them to write a 20 page- story in 2 months. The teenager went home and…
For almost 16 years I haven’t had young learners. This year I have a group of 10 year olds. I just see them once a week and our idea was to give them a chance to chat in English. Their level of English is so basic, as you can guess .However, their enthusiasm is…
Last weekend I attended a 2-day-professional development workshops on etwinning for beginners. I must say I learned a lot. I’ve been registered etwinning with a hope to find a Comenius project partner for almost a year but attending the workshops I realised I knew nothing about the site. Etwinning gives teachers a wonderful opportunity to…
image from here I’m thinking about a new challenge. This year thanks to twitter and my PLN, I and my students experienced wonderful things. We had global projects and skype chats now I’m thinking to move it one step further. Sometimes we organise debates in the class. I thought maybe we…
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…
In pairs brainstorm ideas: 1. When is the retirement age? 2. What do people do when they are retired? You can talk about what people do in our country and other countries. 3. Why do you think some people want to go on working even after they get retired? 4. When do you want to…
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…
