Activities August 30, 2012 Child’s play crafts that increase spelling skills (by Anna Musielak) My spelling is Wobbly. It’s good spelling but it Wobbles, and the letters get in the wrong places. A. A. Milne English might be an easy language but its spelling is tough and complicated.... Share this:FacebookLinkedInTwitterPinterestPrintMoreEmailTumblrRedditPocket
Activities August 14, 2012 Engaging young (and very young) learners with (basic) craft projects (by Anna Musielak) Arts and crafts involve children simultaneously in activities promoting their personal development and in helping them to learn the language. While making things, children also make meaning. As they explore shapes, colours, textures, constructions,... Share this:FacebookLinkedInTwitterPinterestPrintMoreEmailTumblrRedditPocket
Activities / Stuff All EFL Teachers Should Know June 3, 2012 Four Skills and Five Senses (by Anna Musielak) Two weeks ago the director of my school announced that the teachers should organize a “family” lesson. Kids could bring their parents, grandparents and relatives to accompany them on the lesson to observe how... Share this:FacebookLinkedInTwitterPinterestPrintMoreEmailTumblrRedditPocket
Activities / Stuff All EFL Teachers Should Know December 24, 2011 EFL Teacher’s Kit for Surviving Kids (by Shelly Sanchez Terrell) When I first began teaching very young English language learners in Germany, I went a bit insane! Kids climbed the walls literally and flew the paper airplanes I had actually thought would be a... Share this:FacebookLinkedInTwitterPinterestPrintMoreEmailTumblrRedditPocket
Activities October 29, 2011 The Halloween party that almost wasn’t I love parties. However, I’ve been traveling for workshops a lot for the past six months, and have had to cancel quite a few classes. During the last week of September and the first... Share this:FacebookLinkedInTwitterPinterestPrintMoreEmailTumblrRedditPocket
Activities / Technology for Teaching and Learning July 6, 2011 Tell a story! (By Christina Markoulaki) Here I am, back from a short-term holiday and ready for my summer lessons! It is customary in Greece for the winter courses in private language institutions to end around May; towards the end... Share this:FacebookLinkedInTwitterPinterestPrintMoreEmailTumblrRedditPocket
Activities March 3, 2011 Six Word Stories Recently, I participated in a fabulous digital storytelling workshop through TESOL Electronic Village Online. One of the activities that caught my eye during the workshop was Six Word Stories. The process is simple: Students... Share this:FacebookLinkedInTwitterPinterestPrintMoreEmailTumblrRedditPocket
Activities February 24, 2011 Cat and Mouse: Reinvention of a Traditional Game (by Marco A. Brazil) In the US, they call it Duck Duck Goose. In Bulgaria they call it Pesek, while in Ghana they call it Antokyire. Children across the globe call it many different names, and in the... Share this:FacebookLinkedInTwitterPinterestPrintMoreEmailTumblrRedditPocket
Activities December 14, 2010 Meeting Challenges in the EFL Classroom/ Part 1: Read-aloud activities (by Christina Markoulaki) Branko M., Assistant Professor of American Literature of the English Department (Faculty of Humanities in Serbia), has been so kind as to give me the opportunity to present in a webinar some of the challenges... Share this:FacebookLinkedInTwitterPinterestPrintMoreEmailTumblrRedditPocket
Activities October 30, 2010 Witches, Ninjas, Fairies, Princesses, and Super Heroes It’s Halloween, and time for another class party! These were my students’ costumes for our Halloween party this year. Considering that dressing up wasn’t mentioned, I was impressed that they made such an effort... Share this:FacebookLinkedInTwitterPinterestPrintMoreEmailTumblrRedditPocket