Beatlesmania… How should I start? Welll… No introduction is needed for this post. I love Beatles đ I love using their songs in my lessons. Below I added some links which I had bookmarked for future use. I hope they will inspire us in the new school year. My Beatlesmania Links 1. 10 Stories Behind…
Lyric Race is a fun activity Iâve learned recently which can be used with songs. It sounds it will work well with young learners yet sometimes the teenagers also would like to do something like this. ⢠Choose some words from the song you will use in the class and prepare word cards. Stick the…
Well, when do you say, I will survive? Guess I can hear you? If a friend has a broken heart and is very sad, what advice will you give and in thend make her say ‘I will survive’ Don’t worry it is not me who needs to be strong đ Here is my lesson: And…
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…
Part of the series From my PLN Music is everywhere, it surrounds us from the moment we are born â well even before that;) My father is a music lover so my earliest childhood memories revolve around singing, dancing and âmakingâ my own music. I loved to record songs or my covers of rhymes;) I…
Lemon Tree: Activities for Prepositions, Present Continuous, and Adjectives Lemon Tree truly is one of those songs that keeps giving, no matter which structure you want to focus on. I was reading Vicky Saumell’s Eltchat summary on Teaching English through songs in the digital age (part 3 of 4): Specific songs and their uses, I…
Find a song in another language which has an English version. Here is an idea for âIl faut savoirâ by Charles Aznavour. The song may be more suitable for adults but the activity can be applied to other songs as well.Play the song Ask students to try to guess what the song can be about…
      I learned very early in life that: “Without a song, the day would never end; without a friend, a man ain’t got a friend; without a song, the road would never bend- without a song” So I keep singing a song. – Elvis Presley I have written many times that I really enjoy using…
I have a group of students who are studying for the university entrance exam. These students will also take the language test too because they want to study TEFL or literature. Mostly we do more serious work in order to be ready for the vital test. However, there are times we need to take a…
In the session, I talked about why we should use songs in EFL classes. Music is everywhere in our lives. We listen to songs when we are happy, angry, sad or when we need inspiration or when we want to relax. We go out of our homes with our songs, we travel with them, we wait…
 When I’m sixty-four is a wonderful song that works in the English Language classroom. I’ve just used the song with my students. Here is what we did: 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…
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…
