Using movies in the classroom is not just to spend some good time with students but it is also a great way of teaching.
I really love using Moviesegmentstoassessgrammar, Movie Segments for Warm ups and Follow ups and Film English. I also started a board on pinterest to compile some ideas for using movies in the lessons.
Here is a handout I prepared for a movie, The Game.
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When I went to the computer lab with my young learners, I realised that creating something using web 2.0 tools won’t very easy with them as I only see them once a week. I’m just thinking about tools that don’t require registration and e-mail confirmation as it will be too time consuming. They are…
“Time is the longest distance between two places.” ― Tennessee Williams, The Glass Menagerie I’ve been doing some creative writing workshops with a group of young learners. They love writing stories, poems but they still have problems with the tenses so today we revised them. As they love writing and hate drill-like exercises, I prepared…
Here is a really cool writing activity you can try with your students. Today we started with some questions written on cards about reading, watching movies, book characters, new trends on social media, etc. Then we read a paragraph about JK Rowling and Harry Potter, why it was a huge success, why we love it,…
You feel tired and have no energy to plan a lesson for tomorrow, Your students have been too fast to finish the tasks you planned for this lesson, You see they sulk, they feel bored or tired and can’t understand the lesson, then why not roll a dice and let the fun begin. What can…
#eltpics, @KatySDavies We have electricity, internet, smart phones, tablets, infinite technology. Yet our teenagers are not satisfied. Yet they don’t realize how they can develop themselves. Yet they can’t create anything. I was watching CNN and just came across this great project: The Daylight Project What a great…
WHY? Drills are the most important exercises at the 1st phase of learning a new structure. They may be neglected thinking that they are mechanical and meaningless but they may be very effective for some learners. They are repetitive so they can make the form memorable. Making a drill type of exercise a little bit…
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