Posts under ‘activities’

Music and Movement for Young English Learners (by Kathleen Kampa and Charles Vilina)

May 13th, 2010

Part of the series: Stuff All EFL Teachers Should Know Matt Richelson makes some excellent points about the power of music in the EFL classroom in his recent article, “Teaching Young Learners With Songs.” I use music and movement daily with young learners in the English classroom. Let me add a few more suggestions that [...]

The Wonder of Contact! (by Hadley Ferguson)

Apr 1st, 2010

by HadleyFerguson.

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Part of the series: Stuff All EFL Teachers Should Know More on Hadley’s adventures in online collaboration. If you’d like to read the beginning of this adventure, check out “New Friends” It was a marvelous day for my students when we got to share the learning that went on in our classroom with people living [...]

The Foolproof Lesson

Mar 21st, 2010

by Barbara.

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Part of the series: Stuff All EFL Teachers Should Know Most teachers have a short list of foolproof activities they can build a lesson around in a pinch–and this is one of mine. It’s foolproof because it works for all levels, all ages, and with or without prepared materials. It’s deceptively simple, so beginning students [...]

Moving Your Kindergarten into Web 2.0 with 5 Different Tools (by Özge Karaoğlu)

Mar 9th, 2010

by ozge.

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Part of the series: Stuff All EFL Teachers Should Know “If we teach today as we taught yesterday, we rob our children of tomorrow” John Dewey Kindergarten has always been the place to make friends, paint pictures, tell stories, play games and have fun while learning. Wooden blocks and legos have always been favorites in [...]

How to create video activities on a teacher’s blog (by Christina Markoulaki)

Mar 6th, 2010

by Christina Markoulaki.

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Part of the series: Stuff All EFL Teachers Should Know The focal point of my previous post on this blog were the potential ways teachers can help their students to organize and practice their knowledge by setting up a blog especially for them. Since video activities on a teacher’s blog seem to be the most [...]

Teaching High School in Croatia (by Arjana Blazic)

Mar 5th, 2010

by ArjanaBlazic.

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To teach is to touch a life forever. I have been trying to enhance my teaching with the new technologies since 1997 when I created my first web page while attending a seminar on New Technologies in Modern Language Teaching in Finland. But everything I did over those twelve years was nothing compared to what [...]

Flap Books: A Simple Secret for Student Support! (by Lesley Ito)

Mar 4th, 2010

by LesleyIto.

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Part of the series: Stuff All EFL Teachers Should Know I think what every teacher needs to know is this simple secret to successful ESL/EFL classes: Students can accomplish so much more if the lesson has proper support. It is very difficult for students, particularly at the EFL level, to stand up in front of [...]

How to integrate blogging in EFL teaching (by Christina Markoulaki)

Feb 26th, 2010

by Christina Markoulaki.

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Part of the series: Stuff All EFL Teachers Should Know I am pretty confident that a vast majority of EFL teachers relish blogging, but each one employs this practice in his/her teaching differently. I am therefore taking the initiative to write this post to ask and give an answer to this question: Have you ever [...]

Multicultural Activities in Class (by Vicky Loras)

Feb 16th, 2010

by VickyLoras.

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Part of the series: Stuff All EFL Teachers Should Know I lived in Canada the first eight years of my life, which means that my schooling was only for three years. However, the great educational system left me with many good memories which I have incorporated in my teaching the ten years I have been [...]