WAIT TIME, THINK TIME
How much time do you give to your students to think about your question before asking for an answer? A bevy of recent research suggests that we’ve entered the age of impatience. We want it all and we want it…
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JUST GOOGLE IT: MAN VS. WOMAN
What comes to your mind when you hear the word ‘manpower’? A. Working men B. The Marlboro Man C. Working women. Really? On the International Women’s day, the British Council ran a fantastic webinar NON-GENDERED LANGUAGE: HOW TO TEACH IT, SHOULD WE…
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…
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…
WATCH LIVE
Our planet holds a wide variety of unexplained phenomena, including the Sphinx, Bermuda Triangle, a Mayan crystal skull, the Great Pyramid, and now the Red Truck. Why on Earth the Jackson Hole Town Square livestream place became one of the most…
CRAFTY TEACHING: POCKET STUDY TOOL
‘In crafting there are no mistakes, just unique creations.’ This is yet another post in my DIY or how-to-turn-a-carrot-into-a-clarinet series (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…
THE A-MAZE-ING GAME
Speaking Games: The A-MAZE-ING Game ‘If you don’t know where you are going, you might wind up someplace else.’ A ‘maze’ principle has been widely used in ELT material design, in particular for reading assignments, where students are given different…
THINK POSITIVE
Speaking Games: Think Positive The creative life is simple: get up, get dressed, get on with it. Chuck Sandy. Creativity is the new Holy Grail of today’s life. The quest for creativity seems to have reached the proportion of global…