http://teachingrecipes.com Sat, 07 Jan 2012 17:32:25 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Lessons in a Can, 120+ fully described and leveled multi media lessons with downloads, printables, links is now available to all lifetime supporters of EFL Classroom 2.0 Watch the video and find out how a one time lifetime supporter donation gets you access to the group and lots of additional supporter ... http://teachingrecipes.com/2011/11/30/lessons-in-a-can-upgrade/ This is a great idea for the start of the year.  Give each group of students some card board strips of paper. Also some tape.  Students brainstorm the names of all things in the classroom (in English!).  Then, ask them to go tape the names up around the classroom. First come, first server. After, ... http://teachingrecipes.com/2011/07/23/classroom-labeling/ This idea works well in pairs.  Model in front of the class first.    1. Write numbers or letters on the back of a student/classmate by using your finger. 2. The classmate guesses the number/letter. 3. Make it more advanced. Larger numbers / words.    You can also do a variation of this by doing the ... http://teachingrecipes.com/2011/06/01/body-writing/ I've collected 100+ multi media lessons full of links and resources to download. Lessons in a Can. Take a look - many levels and a recipe for each one   http://teachingrecipes.com/2011/05/05/lessons-in-a-can-2/ It would be great to get students working in teams to write up a dialogue for this cool google doodle video a la Charlie Chaplin. Then play the video as students read out/perform their dialogue. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3NGSU2PM9dA&feature=youtu.be[/youtube] http://teachingrecipes.com/2011/04/30/write-the-dialogue/ Two players face each other. One palms up and the other palms down over the other hand. The player with the palms up try to slap the hand with palms down. When successful, the student can ask the other student a question (improvised or from a list). Swap places. http://teachingrecipes.com/2011/03/26/hot-hands/ Sometimes it is really difficult to avoid students talk in their mother tongue, so usually I choose a corner of the whiteboard and draw a small circle and write Portuguese Area. So if a students want to say anything that he/she can't say in English he/she has to stand up ... http://teachingrecipes.com/2011/03/25/language-area/ Great activity to revise VOCABULARY from previous classes. Ask students to think of a word they've learned previously. They have to make sure they know how to write it. Students come to the front of the class and write the word in the air using his index finger. Then, students write down ... http://teachingrecipes.com/2011/03/25/message-in-the-air/ The teacher elicits some verbs from students (4 or 5 verbs) and writes them on the board. Ex: run-eat-see-fly. Give students 2 or 3 minutes to write a sentence with all the verbs from the board in the same sequence without adding any other verb except for auxiliaries. Ex: I was ... http://teachingrecipes.com/2011/03/25/the-phrase/ Overview: A simple but fun quick-fire game to liven up a class or as a reward in the final segment of a language lesson.  A student comes to the front of the class, the students choose a topic (for example, 'Your last holiday', 'Your favourite food' etc), then the class fire ... http://teachingrecipes.com/2011/02/11/the-yesno-game/