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A Back To School Snowball Fight
It is back to school time and this teaching recipe is proven to work for all levels!
1. Get students to fill out on a sheet of paper some info. about themselves. You can use a prepared page like this … Read More ....
Instant Prompts
Teaching a language is both super difficult and super easy. That’s contradictory but if you’ve taught a number of years, I think you’ll also see the logic and sense in that statement.
One of our main jobs is to give … Read More ....
Logical Inferences. Cause and Effect.
A fun way to elicit vocabulary from students is through a First – Then activity. It’s based on a fantastic kid’s book – First The Egg.
It’s really easy to play. Prompt students with “First the X” and then students … Read More ....
What’s The Trend?
A simple teaching recipe using the website – Storyline.
Students in teams open up the game and play. They must make a graph about the data set provided by the site. Ex. Percent of internet users over time.
Students discuss, … Read More ....
Sequencing
Sequencing is a great, open way to design a lesson task. Students get lots of comprehensible input and listening for detail and it is easy to do, organize.
1. Find a good piece of audio or video with clear steps. … Read More ....
Free Hugs
I used to do this with my classes (teacher training) and it always showed up on my teacher evaluations post-course as one of the highlights mentioned by trainees. You can do it too with students.
FREE HUGS.
Play the song … Read More ....
Tasks For Teaching
TBLT (Task Based Language Teaching) is a valid approach and alternative to the traditional Prepare – Practice – Produce style lessons many teachers deliver.
Simply give students a task (preferably transferable to the real world) and let them “have a … Read More ....
Last Things First
One of the problems with teaching is that there is never enough time and things almost always take more time than we’ve planned for in our lessons.
So what happens is that the real important stuff, the activities, the “giving … Read More ....
Wish I Knew Then
Your students bring such a powerful and deep view and knowledge of the world into the classroom. We should always tap into that – each n every lesson.
One cool way is to ask them about “life advice”. What do … Read More ....
Guess The Sound
A fun game you can play online or off.
1. Students go and find an object that makes sound.
2. Keep it hidden or turn off the camera.
3. Then they do the sound and others guess.
4. Who guessed … Read More ....
