Dictation is not considered an old fashioned activity any more. A lot f teachers have discovered that it’s a rich mine for developing learners vocabulary and structural competence. The teacher’s role in modern variations of this activity is no longer considered central. Learners are given more control of the activity. Read more…
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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In this activity students are encouraged to do a resarch and write a biography about a prominent woman who made history. Read more…
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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…
Dictation is one of the oldest activities. It is thought, unduly, to be an old fashioned, teacher-centered and uncommunicative activity. Nevertheless, it still has its place in ELT. The activity that I will present in this post is a variation of the traditional dictation. You can look for more variations in my previous post about why teachers should use dictation in English language teaching. Read more…
This activity teaches students expressions of advice (asking for and giving advice.) The materials needed are sheets of paper and pens or pencils. The activity takes about 50 minutes. Read more…
Brainstorming is a tool that uses a relaxed, informal atmosphere combined with lateral thinking to solve problems. In spite of its importance in the generation of new ideas, many students do not have enough training to use it. This activity will teach students to brainstorm effectively. It can be carried out in a one-period session. No materials are required apart from a pen or pencil and sheets of paper. Read more…
This activity teaches students to write persuasive essay. The activity takes about 2-3 session periods. Read more…
