ALPHABET RACE
It’s that time of the year when teachers can finally breathe again and take an inventory of their toolkits. Brain breaks and time fillers It’s always a good idea to have a few fun activities up your sleeve as a…
Category vocabulary
FOLDABLE WORD GAMES: 2 in 1
Foldable Word Builder for Low Resource Classrooms Here’s a new addition to my WORD GAMES collection (see some of the games in my WORD GAMES post) – the Foldable Word Builder-Word Search Game. It is a Build a Word version…
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…
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…
SPELLING MATTERS
English spelling might seem very illogical but it can be learnt through tough thorough thought, though. Only about 12% of words in English are spelt the way they sound. With 26 letters, there are around 44 sounds (this is not precise…
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 WIND OF CHANGE
Vocabulary Activities: New English Words A wug lives in a house. What would you call a house that a wug lives in? Like everything else in nature, language is a work in progress. According to the Global Language Monitor, currently there is…
ALL IN ONE: VOCABULARY ORGANIZER/FLASH CARD MAKER
The other day I came across this post by Pete from ELT-Planning describing the Frayer model (a 4-square graphic organizer) as a vocabulary development tool and offering an interesting expansion to this model, which definitely makes it more worthwhile for learners.…
THE SECRET KEEPER GAME: HOW TO SPILL THE BEANS
Fun Speaking Games for Language Learners: The Secret Keeper They say that applicants for membership in secret societies in ancient Greece were voted upon by having the existing members drop beans into a pottery jar. Those who approved of the…