How to Design Warmers in Grammar Lessons That Actually Work When teaching grammar, context is everything. We want our students to see language as a tool for communication, not just a set of rules to memorize. That’s why presenting grammar within a meaningful context—through a reading or listening exercise, a short video, or a real-life…
As a language teacher, I try to find fun and engaging activities that can help my students improve their speaking skills. Here is an activity I’ve tried recently with my 1-on-1 student. However, it can be done in the class as a warm-up, filler, or energizer or even to revise grammar such as gerunds. I’ve…
Here’s what I know about English teaching at the start of a new term: a few simple activities I’ve been using with my classes. These activities can be used as ‘getting to know’ activities at the beginning of the new terms. Level A1/A2 Age: All What I Know About English: Getting-to-Know-You Activities Songs and…
Energizers for online and hybrid classrooms can make a real difference to how a lesson feels. My main aim in this post is to find ways to make the online classroom feel more like our usual face-to-face classes. I’ll add some websites and apps, but I wanted to avoid the quiz-makers and game-makers you’ve probably…
Here are 5 fun activities that you can use in an EFL, ESL Class: 1. Categories Divide the class into two. Explain the rules. You will give the students a category. Call 2 students from each team to the board. Set 2 minutes and tell them to write the words that come to their mind….
I know I am a bit late for the following lesson ideas but for a while I’ve been a bit reluctant to write anything. I hope I will keep my blog alive in 2013 … Now here I go … A lesson for the next Christmas Christmas sounds like — Christmas tastes like —- Christmas…
I found this activity hidden in one of my idea notebooks a few minutes ago while trying to organize my files. Ask students to write a question on a piece of paper. Tell them to fold it down and pass it to the next student. The next students will also write a question and fold…
Coming together is a beginning. Keeping together is progress. Working together is success. – Henry Ford In some parts of the world the classes have just begun and here we still have time to prepare ourselves for the coming year. We all have some tricks to begin the new term, some fun ideas to make…
Well, I told you about the wonderful experience we had with Berni and told that the whole thing was part of a professional development course. We started with advanced grammar and continued with getting students to write, use technology tools (blogs, wikis etc developing ideas), or the traditional way. The following day was about improving…
http://www.glogster.com/flash/flash_loader.swf?ver=1275302300 If you are also about to finish the school year and need something else other than your course material, quotes are always good for wonderful activities. What can you do with them? 1. Write some of them on pieces of paper and stick to the walls and do wall dictation. 2. Jumble some of…
From time to time, I do this fun activity with my students and we have fun and laughter in the class. On slips of papers write some sentences. (or tell your students to write a suggestion, regret, wish, advise, exclamation, etc) Put the slips of papers in an envelope. Prepare index cards. On each card, write…
