Category: All Ages & Levels

Writing storybooks or making picture books is a great way to reinforce grammar and vocabulary. It also gives students confidence and pride in “producing” something visible and tangible to measure their English language learning experience.

There are several steps to … Read More ....

One great recipe is to play a video with vocabulary content. Not flashcards but something real and beautiful.  Then, students either write or speak or brainstorm all the vocabulary from the video in the specific category you mention. 

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I’m sending out a call to all practicing teachers for some recipes!  Short, simple ideas that can help all teachers but especially those new to the profession and just getting their toes wet and their chalkboard dirty.

I’ve simplified this … Read More ....

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 … Read More ....

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 … Read More ....

This is a very easy activity.  Easy to prepare and easy to do.  Howvever, it is very efficient to evaluate sts listening skills and to get some creativity in the listening area in your class.  I actually modified it from … Read More ....

We all know there is no way to teach grammar efficiently without being systematic.  We OUGHT to teach grammar systematically.  For example,

PAST SIMPLE

Explain in native tongue the tense and give the structure

Positive: Subject+verb+complement.

Negative: Subject+didn’t+verb+complement

Questions: Did+subject+verb+complement.… Read More ....

I 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 … Read More ....

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 … Read More ....

A 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, … Read More ....