TENSES AT FINGERTIPS
Finger Twister: the Present Simple Tense Review – Are there any games to teach the Present Simple tense? My kids forget it so quickly. You can turn any drill into a game by using game mechanics (see a few tips…
Svetlana Kandybovich
HOW TO LEARN NEW WORDS
Remembering and using new words in speech is often a challenge for language learners. Quite often, this causes them to shy away from speaking. I’ve described 10 strategies that may help language learners make words “sticky” in my new article…
LOVE IS IN …
People see love in the simplest things like the scent of rain, the taste of burek, or the sound of ‘new’ words in their student’s answer…Well, the latter is probably more about teachers. Anyway, love is in the air. And…
5 WAYS TO BRING COLOUR INTO LEARNING
Roses are red, violets are blue, colour can be used with adult learners too. Numerous studies have shown that colour breaks the monotony, adds variety, has a significant impact on our emotion and mood, helps us focus more and remember…
LEARNING IN COLOUR
Colouring for Language Learning: A Set of Activities A splash of colour may be all they need. Colouring has become the latest most popular trend for unplugging and taking a break from life for a few minutes to create something…
GETTING INTO THE FESTIVE SPIRIT
It’s that time of the year again. The time to decorate the Christmas tree, do Christmas quizzes, make Christmas dishes, browse through the history and traditions of Christmas, or do lots of other activities related to the ‘jingle bells’ time…
1 WORKSHEET – 10 GAMES
10 Ways to Gamify Drilling Activities: Make Drilling More Meaningful and Fun All you need is a sheet of paper. * * * This post shows how the use of game mechanics can help a teacher design better drilling activities and…
ART IN THE CLASSROOM: THE TOPSY-TURVY WORLD
“Art is all around us”. My today’s post is a lesson plan built around Netherlandish Proverbs (Nederlandse Spreekwoorden), a 1559 painting with literal illustrations of 200 Dutch proverbs and idioms by the Flemish artist Pieter Bruegel the Elder, offering an engaging way of…
STORY CUPS
My today’s post continues the series of posts on crafts and low-cost ideas for the classroom (See CREATIVE LOW-COST TEACHING/LEARNING AIDS to learn how to make low-cost flip cards, small books, vocabulary organizers, puppets and game fields out of a sheet…
HOW TO BE A BORING TEACHER
Recent research suggests that boredom might have many benefits, including increased creativity. A researcher from the University of Central Lancashire carried out the following experiment. She split students into two groups and had one group carry out a humdrum task…
