Story cubes: ideas and resources
Do you use story cubes? Here are a few ideas on how to use them — even create your own! Please click the pictures to visit each site. 10 teaching ideas: Circle writing with narrative tenses: A useful...
View ArticleThe football pitch
Henningsvær, in the north of Norway, is a small fishing village located on several small islands off the southern coast of the large island of Austvågøya, in Lofoten archipelago. And on one of these...
View ArticleMusic Borders: some lesson ideas
Music Borders maps number 1 songs in over 3,000 places around the world. The sheer experience of visiting different continents and countries and listening to whatever is popular at the moment has...
View Article“The Great Gatsby”
1. Play the following: Have students write down 10 words they can think of while listening to this piece of music. Ask them to share a few words with their partner or team. Explain that jazz became...
View Article20 song-based lesson plans and activities
Here’s an update on this post with six other song-based lesson plans and activities. It’s also a desperate attempt at organising the chaos on this blog! In any case, I do hope you find something...
View ArticleThe blog anniversary
LEAD-IN 1. Write the word “blog”. Elicit any words associated with it. Add the word “teach” or “teaching”. Have them come up with any connections they can think of. 2. Explain that a fellow blogger...
View ArticleQuestion charts – Update
Svetlana Kandybovich from ELT-CATION has turned this question chart into a really useful digital tool in which students play to earn the most points by writing a wide variety of higher-order...
View ArticleHitting the headlines
I’ve used this “Let’s write an intriguing science headline!” cartoon by Tom Gauld to design a speaking activity in which students will be providing short explanations for each headline and adapting...
View Article“To Space and Back”
Sally Ride was about to become the first American woman in space when she boarded the space shuttle “Challenger” on 18th June 1983. In “To Space and Back”, Sally describes what it’s like to launch...
View ArticleThe rotating house
A couple of seasons of George Clarke’s “Amazing Spaces” were broadcast this summer on national public TV here in Spain. I had seen clips on the internet and knew about the show, but I didn’t know it’d...
View ArticleCome rain or shine
1. Write the word “rain” on the board and ask students to come up with words related to it. Write them down. Are they positive or negative? Can they sometimes be both? Why? 2. Introduce a few idioms...
View ArticleInside a painting
Jumping straight into a painting and immersing ourselves into the beauty of Van Gogh’s art is what Mathy147’s astonishing work allows us to do. Hosted on Kuula, which features all kinds of virtual...
View Article“I want a hippopotamus for Christmas”
Remember that weird thing you once badly wanted for Christmas? Something you were completely sure would change your life and bring eternal happiness? The following lesson, based on the song “I want a...
View Article“A Midsummer Night’s Dream” alphabet book
My younger students read a graded reader based on “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” this term. As a post-reading activity, the students have created an alphabet book with two DIN A3 papers on cardboard and...
View ArticleA helmet has always been a good idea
1. Have the students work together and fill in the speech bubbles in the conversation below. When a word is provided (sail, ships, annoying, to ruin), ask them to use it:...
View Article16 short films and videos that work well with teenagers
Here are 16 short films and videos I’ve been using for the past few years in my classes and which have worked well with teenagers (at least in my context!) The selection includes different types of...
View ArticleThe climber
In this reading comprehension and vocabulary lesson, the students are first exposed to a few words from the text and asked to establish relationships between them as they read. 1. Explain to the...
View ArticleThe history of Bluetooth
1. Display this icon: Elicit any words related to it and its use. Write them down. Have the students complete the following sentence: “Bluetooth is the technology that…” The students share their...
View Article“Dream A Little Dream Of Me”
1. Write the word “dreams” and have the students answer the following questions:– Do you like having dreams?– Do you remember your dreams?– Do you think dreams have special meanings?– Have you ever...
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