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TREASURE HUNT ONLINE
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4 Sep 2010
Here is the link to a treasure hunt online which worked really well with my students. Hope it's worth sharing and you'll find it useful.
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Disappearing Dialogue
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13 Jul 2010I got this one from EFL Classroom 2.0. There is a ppt you can use to do dialogues which is cool.
Disappearing dialogues is a very much used language teaching technique
1. Elicit and write the dialogue. Or use a prepared dialogue.
2. Students practice in pairs.
3. Once they are comfortable with the dialogue. Disappear some parts. Continue disappearing more...
4. Rebuild the dialogue together to…
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Great Projects to Learn English: Create your English Game
In: Advanced| Beginner| High School| Intermediate| Middle School| Recipe
26 Jun 2010
Last year, I asked my students to do the following project: CREATE YOUR ENGLISH GAME! It was a hard task, but so REWARDING!!!!!!! Because of that, I've just decided to share
THEATRE, a higly motivating enriching task
In: All Ages & Levels| High School| Middle School| Recipe
18 May 2010
Our dearest playwright SHAKESPEARE wrote in his play As You Like It, this:
"All the world's a stage, And all the men and women merely players; They have their exits and their entrances, And one man in his time plays many parts, His acts being seven ages".
Maybe due to his quote, maybe because I love theatre and performing plays…
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What did I do?
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30 Apr 2010A great way to start a class concentrating on the simple past.
I usually engage everyone in a friendly chat, just to get them ready for the start of the lesson, then, when I know they are concentrated on me, I walk out of the classroom.
Seconds later (after the chatter has died down a little - 'where's he gone?') I knock loudly on the door, then open the door, wave to…
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Organize your own Music Festival (Future tenses and comperatives/superlatives)
In: High School| Intermediate| Middle School| Recipe| University
5 Apr 2010Hi all,
This lesson is ideal for pre/intermediate classes to practice both future tense and comperatives/superlatives.
First start with a quick discussion on music and the Ss's favourite singers or bands etc.
Then, tell them they're going to organize their own music festival- a very special one to their own taste. Give them the following points to think about preferably in pairs. (the focus is on the future tense)
-What kind of a music…
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Gossip Girl and Reported Speech
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18 Mar 2010Hello,
I’d like to share my idea to present reported speech for the first time in the classroom. It can be used with all level students. You just have to modify it according to the level.
It is a fun way of teaching reported speech. Ideally it is the best…
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Objective – Depending on the level: Vocab. Building (Demographic Country Terms)
Describing a Country
Basic question formation
Procedure – Begin the class by drawing a big map of your country on the board. Put some cities in, roads, mountains, etc (This should take less than a minute). Ask the class what the country is called and what the thing you drew is (a…
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Extensive Reading: Voice Diary
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12 Jan 2010
Extensive Reading: Voice Diary
This recipe works best if you combine it with Extensive Reading. It builds confidence and teaches reading, speaking, and listening
Encourage your students to make a voice diary with their cell phones. Its listed under the “Voice Memo” Feature. First you need to provide a high interest story to your students.
1. Have them read the story once quietly
2. …
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New Year’s Resolutions
In: Advanced| High School| Intermediate| Middle School| Recipe| University
1 Jan 2010
This is a great way to practice the future tense and learn about each other. Adapted from Jill Hadfield's "Communication Games".
1. Ask students about their resolutions. Put the target language on the board - "This year, I will / I resolve to / I'm going to ..........
2. List some of the common resolutions as you discuss.
3. Students write down 3 resolutions and then…
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- TREASURE HUNT ONLINE
- Disappearing Dialogue
- Great Projects to Learn English: Create your English Game
- THEATRE, a higly motivating enriching task
- What did I do?
- Six Steps to Learning a Word
- Organize your own Music Festival (Future tenses and comperatives/superlatives)
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- Gossip Girl and Reported Speech