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Drawful – Drawing game for lexical chunks – Mike Astbury – Teaching Games
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Mike Astbury – Teaching Games. July 23, 2015. August 15, 2015. Drawful – Drawing game for lexical chunks. Adapting games – Drawful. This is an adaptation of a fun and inventive game that was released just last year. While the original game is played on a computer, this adaptation for the classroom is played on paper. This is a perfect game for revising chunks of language. In this example my class are revising phrasal verbs. One of the sentences containing the target language. The girl gave up on music.
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Wits and wagers – Error correction game – Mike Astbury – Teaching Games
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Mike Astbury – Teaching Games. August 10, 2015. August 15, 2015. Wits and wagers – Error correction game. Adapting games – Wits and Wagers. In this example I have written four sentences based on errors my students made in the previous lesson:. I’m just yawned I’m so tiring. I’m not used to do parties every night like this. They went for the pub to try a new menu. I don’t know how it tasted like but they told it was different than the old menu. My four groups have written:. Once everything is clear and th...
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Adapting games – Apples to apples – Mike Astbury – Teaching Games
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Mike Astbury – Teaching Games. March 11, 2015. June 7, 2015. Adapting games – Apples to apples. Is a word association game in which players match nouns and verb phrases to adjectives. Its popularity can be attributed to the funny combinations that come up and the simplicity of its design. I’ll be showing you how the game is played and how it can be improved and adapted for the TEFL classroom using custom made cards. There is a template to follow at the end so that you can make your own. It’s a quic...
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Song Grab | firstwetry
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Activities for the English Language Classroom. While I really love using music in lessons, with both YL and adult classes, I do sometimes run out of activities to do. Listening for specific sounds / homophones. Recording of the song of your choice, plus pre-prepared cut-ups and a lyrics sheet to hand out at the end. Image taken from commons.wikimedia.org via google search licensed for non-commercial reuse. In class, explain that students are going to work on their careful listening, and will have to iden...
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Action plan | How I see it now
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How I see it now. My thoughts on teaching, mostly ELT. On prioritizing →. August 13, 2015. In one of my previous posts. I shared my concerns regarding the upcoming academic year. I said that I was worried about one particular class – a group of upper intermediate senior students, whom I had never taught before and who have a somewhat bad reputation among my colleagues. So this is what I’m planning to do … I’ll write the following hints on the board:. This is not a final-exam-oriented course, but. By elic...
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Hana Tichá | How I see it now
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How I see it now. My thoughts on teaching, mostly ELT. Author Archives: Hana Tichá. I'm an EFL teacher based in the Czech Republic. I've been teaching English to learners of all ages for more than 20 years. I love metaphors and inspiring discussions concerning teaching, learning and linguistics. Small things matter – some insights from a conference. November 6, 2016. November 5, 2016. Corpora as Spell Check tools? November 4, 2016. And finally, do you think you can use a … Continue reading →. I have a qu...
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Team Extreme! | firstwetry
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Activities for the English Language Classroom. This activity is a lot less versatile that ones I’ve been blogging up until now, but I wanted to try and increase my post frequency, and this is a “tried-and-tested” activity rather than just a “tried” one. Thesaurus use / Learner autonomy. Can be done with nothing but a whiteboard and a few different coloured pens, but in the image you’ll see coloured post-its used for the different teams. Photo taken by my lovely student “A”. And http:/ thesaurus.babyl...
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Do you practise what you preach? | How I see it now
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How I see it now. My thoughts on teaching, mostly ELT. The best game ever! How to increase student talking time). Dictation – yes/no/why/how? Do you practise what you preach? May 17, 2015. Have you ever thought about the discrepancy between what you tell your students to believe and what you believe yourself? I mean, don’t you ever preach water and drink wine? I think I do, quite often, without even realizing so. You should have’, ‘Why didn’t you’. 8216;Next time you could’. And what about you? I'm an EF...
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rosesunrise65 – a teacher in action
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A teacher in action. A quote of the day. September 6, 2016. 8220;I am not a teacher but an awakener.” Robert Frost. A quote of the day. September 6, 2016. September 6, 2016. 8220;Education is the key to unlock the golden door of freedom.” George Washington Carver. A quote of the day. September 6, 2016. September 6, 2016. 8221;Poor is the pupil who does not surpass his master”. A quote of the day. September 6, 2016. A quote of the day. September 6, 2016. A quote of the day. September 6, 2016.
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Feedback: Candy on the Table | Wednesday Seminars
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Zhenya Polosatova's reflective lounge: learning, teaching, teacher training. Feedback: Candy on the Table. On beliefs about feedback. As you already know, I love metaphors. I use them in class (a lot) and in writing (less often). And I like how they shape what I am trying to say or convey and make the point less ‘direct’ towards the other person but more focused on the subject, or the idea itself. Image credit: from Flickr. Let me list my list of reasons why this metaphor works for me:. You won’t f...
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