Standard vs Slang
EFL learners have difficulty understanding and interacting with native speakers because the nature of native speakers language differ more or less from the artificial language that we, as EFL teachers, use in the classroom. That’s why, it would be a good idea to teach slang to EFL students to bridge the gap between the language of the books that we usually teach and the language of every day life that our learners would be forced to understand and use when facing authentic situations and interacting with native speakers.
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Learning how to learn – basic strategies
This slideshare gives your students some starting points for their own research and study. It will lead them into learning how to learn and tries to answer particularly these issues:
- How should our students study?
- Why should students know their own learning style? Read more…
Women in History
In this activity students are encouraged to do a resarch and write a biography about a prominent woman who made history. Read more…
Are lesson plans necessary?
Although lesson plans constitute a major part of being a teacher, they are dreaded and sometimes their importance underestimated by some teachers. Some teachers even advance the unpredictability of some events in the classroom to discredit any attempt to provide any strict planning of what occurs in the classroom. Although this might be true, it should be noted that a lesson plan is a project of a lesson. It’s not (and cannot) be a description of what will exactly happen during lesson delivery. It provides, however, a guide for managing the classroom environment and the learning process. Read more…
Blogging
This is the third of a series of posts about how to create blogs. The platforms that I chose to give tutorials about are Blogger, Edublog and WordPress. These are the links to the different tutorials: Read more…
Blogs for teachers
This is the second of a series of posts about how to create blogs. The platforms that I chose to give tutorials about are Blogger, Edublog and WordPress. These are the links to the different tutorials: Read more…
Blogging
There is no doubt in my mind that technological tools, such as blogs, will be at the heart of education in the 21st century. Teachers will be able to set up blogs either as a personal development tool or as a professional means of instruction. Here is the first of a series of posts about how to create blogs. The platforms that I chose to give tutorials about are Blogger, Edublog and WordPress. These are the links to the different tutorials: Read more…
Why is lesson planning important?
- Why is lesson planning important?
- How is lesson planning important for the teacher? For the learners?
- What do you take into account when you design a lesson plan?
- What constant components are there in your lesson plan?
This slideshow tries to answer these issues: Read more…
Third conditional sentence
This activity presents third conditional sentences. Students will be able to identify conditional sentence type three, its meaning and how it is formed. Read more…
Using songs
Songs are an effective way learn English because of many reasons: Read more…
