The recording of my talk, entitled ”Using short film in the lower secondary language classroom” at IATEFL YLTSIG 2019 Web Conference, Day 2
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My door is on the roof. I climb with a rope. I have stairs from moon. (Maral, age 11) One of the most favourite activities we do in class is creative writing. It is great for revising grammar and vocabulary. It is also great for unleashing their hidden talents. Although they sometimes complain about drawing, they…
We were working on narrative tenses and the writing task of the lesson was ‘writing a story’. My class is small and it’s a real mixed-ability class. although it’s small, it sometimes takes very ages for the students to master something. The book we’re using organized the activity very well – first making students to know…
Students especially young learners like games with rewards and challenges. That’s why Blooket can be a new alternative for you to create revision exercises in disguise. Question sets can be imported or created easily with Set Builder. You can also explore Blooket sets and export from other users. Blooket is another tool like Kahoot,…
Here is a fun writing activity that you can use with your students. We call them ‘month projects’ because the students have to write the things they have learned, experienced, read or watched at the end of each month. They sometimes write about their feelings, disappointments or goals too. These articles are just for me….
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…
image taken from here I really enjoyed reading the posts of my PLN about their teaching styles. I thought we have lots of things in common, the flexibility, being student centred, etc. However, I tried to name my style. I guess it is more or less similar but let’s look at the classroom as…
