Something old, something new – marrying the two.
Some lesson material works again and again regardless of its age and for me, one of my golden oldies for practicing the simple past and simple past question forms is Willie the Kid from Streamline...
View ArticleWorking With Graded Readers and iPads
There is a lot of evidence to prove that sustained silent reading is exceedingly beneficial both inside and outside the classroom and a key advantage of mobile devices is the ease with which students...
View ArticleStudents’ Presentations: Getting Ready for Speaking Exams
This semester, we have been teaching groups of level 1 students. A while ago, we shared some lesson ideas on getting ready for speaking exams and today we would like to share some short clips of our...
View ArticleLesson Plan: My Best Friend
Here is an integrated skills, step by step lesson plan/workflow created using Comic Life about ‘my best friend’: 1. Practice vocabulary on describing people (appearance and personality adjectives) on...
View ArticleLesson Plan: QR (Quick Response) codes prior to an art exhibition visit
Scan this QR code to ‘listen’ Before going to an art exhibition, the teacher chooses 5 painting by 5 different artists and produces QR codes for the paintings using QRStuff or ZXing Project. As...
View ArticleQR Codes and Expressing Opinions About Images
The activity we suggested in our previous post QR Codes prior to an art exhibition, reminded us of another paper based activity about arts called ‘The Art Gallery’ , which could also be adapted to...
View ArticleEdmodo: a versatile learning management system on which students can be...
Edmodo is a free LMS with a very user friendly interface which allows both students and teachers to upload a myriad of resources including links, pictures, files and comments. Links can be opened up...
View ArticleVideo Edit For Free App Empowers Speaking and Listening
https://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/video-editor-for-free/id450722848?mt=8 Click here to access the video link https://www.dropbox.com/s/x9ki9o59i9wvm5m/Spot%20the%20Lie.mov Video Edit For Free is a...
View ArticleTalking Pictures: A Free App That Engage Students in Speaking and Listening...
Tap on the link to download the app. https://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/talking-pictures/id602767487?ls=1&mt=8 The Pedagogic Principles behind the Speaking Activities. In EFL speaking activities...
View ArticleDescribing Places with Audioboo and QR Codes
Learning Objectives To provide students with the vocabulary and language structures necessary to be able to describe a place they know and to recognize places described by peers in written...
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