Part of the series: EFL Makeovers Cultural Background Ask any Filipinos about Pukpuk Palayok or Hampas Palayok, and chances are they played it or saw it played at least once during their childhoods. The game is so immensely popular that any celebration or town fiesta is not complete without children (oh yes, sometimes adults) playing [...]
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The Star Festival: Teaching Tanabata in English
Part of the series: EFL Makeovers July 7th is Tanabata, or the Star Festival, in Japan. Legend says that Orihime (a weaver, represented by the star Vega) and Hikoboshi (a cowherd, represented by the star Altair) are allowed to cross the Milky Way to meet each year on the seventh evening of the seventh month [...]
Animal Magic with Young Learners (by Leahn Stanhope)
Part of the series: Stuff All EFL Teachers Should Know I was initially very flattered when Barbara asked me to write a guest post, then my happy feeling turned to mild panic. Finally I just decided to write so here we are. This post is dedicated to one of my favourite ‘props’ for the young [...]
A socializing game: Driver’s seat (by Anne Hodgson)
Part of the series: Stuff All EFL Teachers Should Know A few weeks ago I was teaching a group of personal and team assistants (PAs) I hadn’t met before how to assist international teams. This group didn’t need to go over critical incidents they’d had with foreign team members. Instead, they said their biggest challenge [...]
Digital Digits: Creative Ideas for Finger Plays (by Shelly Sanchez Terrell)
Part of the series: Stuff All EFL Teachers Should Know I teach students between the ages of two- and six-years-old. When you teach young learners you discover how much they love finger plays. The children memorize the English quickly and are able to repeat the words and actions on their own. Introducing the Finger Play [...]
Siklot: Reinvention of a Traditional Game for EFL Classrooms (by Marco Brazil)
This post marks the beginning of a new series–EFL Makeovers. Teachers have long recognized the value of games in EFL—as effective substitutes for drills, as authentic tasks for children, and for the joy they bring into class. We adapt games from our home countries, and we adopt games from the countries in which we find [...]
More Than Five Things to do with LEGO® in the EFL Classroom Part 2 (by Emma Herrod)
Part of the series: Stuff All EFL Teachers Should Know If you missed the first half of this article, start here. Home Sweet Home This lesson makes for a fun way of working with language to do with accommodation and living spaces, as the students work together to build a large model house. The model [...]
More Than Five Things to do with LEGO® in the EFL Classroom Part 1 (by Emma Herrod)
Part of the series: Stuff All EFL Teachers Should Know Firstly, I’d like to put this post into some sort of context. In 2002, I landed a dream job (at the time) working at the LEGO Company. The next five years were so much fun and those little coloured bricks became part of my everyday [...]
How to Create a Jazz Chant by Carolyn Graham
Part of the series: Stuff All EFL Teachers Should Know Last November, Carolyn Graham did a workshop at the JALT National Conference in Shizuoka, Japan, on how to make a Jazz Chant. I taped her workshop, and with her permission am sharing the part of it where she demonstrates her technique. One of the many [...]
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