The Sound of Silence is a very powerful song and although it is from a very remote past for our teens, they love it when they hear. When I do the song in the class, I choose images from the web. Just type ‘silence’ and choose the images you want to use in your lessons….
Wikipedia defines Information graphics or infographics as graphic visual representations of information, data or knowledge intended to present complex information quickly and clearly. They are great for today’s visual learners. How can infographics be used in language classes? Both teachers and students can create it I think we can make the list longer according to…
I’m not a fan of doing Valentine’s Day activities in the class but this year I’m planning to do a song lesson. Next week is the first week of the second term in Turkey so this may also be good to break the ice. I’ve been playing with BiteSlide for some time. Here is what…
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 just discovered a new site, Edcanvas where you can easily create online lessons adding urls of a site or videos from Youtube, text and image with web search, upload your own documents from your desktop or from your dropbox account. It is easy and looks promising. I was adding my students’ poems on my…
Materials: Prepare small ingredient cards. (One ingredient on card/with pictures if you want or you can either bring food to the classroom) 1 computer for 2 students 😉 or you may supply them with some magazines even in L1 Level: Upper-int and above Watch a part from Ready Steady Cook. Tell them to jot…
One of my favourite writers for the ‘Reading Class’ is Roald Dahl. I’ve been using his short stories for almost a decade and the students have always loved them. I just came across with this pdf http://www.msad54.org/district/literacyspecialist/pdf/blooms.pdf But you can also get more ideas for using Bloom’s taxonomy in reading classes which I find…
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…
Sessions I attended My session was on 22nd of March. It was a part of the Technology and Teens symposium. I was a bit stressed but it all went very well and we all received very positive feedbacks from the participants which made all of us very happy. It was a great feeling when one…
Nowadays I’m in need of a good collaborative writing tool and while searching I’ve come across with these goodies. Have a look, you will like some of them. StudentPublishing.com I liked the tool as it allows students to draw pictures, upload from desktop and create and publish their stories. You will also find lesson…
