Don’t know how and when it happened, but no kids’ classes at all this year so had no chance to see their happy and snotty little faces when doing the lessons below, but WiseHat lessons are usually very stimulating for both teacher and students, very occassionally in a slightly odd way! (more…)
More to come over the weekend, but here are a couple of stocking fillers to keep you happy until you can open the big lesson plans under the tree on Sunday or Monday:
Stephen Fry gets heavy with the grammar correction (not recommended viewing for CELTA trainees!)
Room 101- Grammar Bullies (recommended viewing for 74 year old Applied Linguistics professors)
Problem hotels fun roleplay (some and any/ Travel English/ complaining and dealing with complaints)
It’s got “going to”, it’s got countable and uncountable, it’s got Travel English, miming, grammar discovery… what more could you possibly ask for?
Countable uncountable travel English going to mimes
See the Travel and Tourism worksheets section and the Grammar games and worksheets section for more of the same TEFLtastic thrills.
More Xmas links, should you be a glutton for merriment (including one that says “Focus: Fluency speaking, advanced vocab, conversation, destroying students’ enjoyment of Christmas”, which is nice)
Putting the seasonal cheer back into grammar (and putting the grammar back into Xmas)
Some of you might be thinking that the problem with Xmas today is an excess of commercialism or the lack of real religious feeling, but the way I see it the problem is an excess of worksheets teaching students vocabulary like “holly” that they will have forgotten by the same time next year (if they even understand the concept of holly anyway) and a lack of tie ins between those seasonal worksheets and everything else students do in the classroom. For those that agree with me that what is needed to make your Xmas complete is lots more grammar, here are some ideas on how to tie in your Xmas lessons with whatever grammar point you are studying at the time (the ideas should work with other major festivals and celebrations too)…
See below for not only shed loads of good grammar ideas in the continuation of this article, but also a whole stocking full of other ideas for Chrimbo-themed lessons for kids (from pre-school) to adults- “Christmastastic fun for all the family” (R)
Sorry there hasn’t been a lot going on the blog page of my blog. It’s all going on elsewhere though: (more…)
Have got plenty of new worksheets up at Usingenglish.com , have added a whole bunch of TEFLtasticly multimedia song worksheets for teaching and practising grammar to my video worksheets (more to come of both of these), and have been rearranging the mini reviews on the reviews page so that they are a little easier to find. Have also somehow found time to teach my classes, in fact sometimes it’s a nice break to get away from the computer screen and into class! That is, until I think of another nice worksheet I could type up for the next class…
Not completely TEFL-related, this one, so TTV doesn’t stand for Test Teach Vegetate (the alternative to Test Teach Test for students with limited attention spans like teenagers and kids whose additive and sugar fixes are starting to wear off). No, this is the newest addition to my list of “Linguistics that don’t put you off your breakfast” resources, Teachers’ TV.