I am sure you are familiar with the card game Taboo. You may have the game at home or you may have even brought it to your classroom for the students to play. As we all know, the goal in a game of Taboo is to get your teammates to guess the word you are describing, but there is a list of taboo words you … Continue reading taboo cards
This morning I was watching the recorded plenary talk that Paul Seligson gave at IATEFL Chile 2016 whose title was Hooking English: using song lines to build on existing knowledge. There are many ideas in his talk that resonate with my vision and use of songs in the classroom. The novelty factor of playing a full song towards the end of the lesson as a … Continue reading articles in English
Another year over… In this last post of 2017 I will be highlighting the top three posts of the year according to the number of visits in reverse order. Click on the images to read the full posts. At number 3 Word Challenge 2. In Word Challenge 2 students look for words and expressions they are curious about related to a given topic and then create … Continue reading top three posts of 2017
The featured image in this post shows the most common rhymes in pop music from 1960 to 2013, according to a study carried by Billboard, with the pair do/you topping the list. Can you guess the highly common rhymes for the words in bold in these songs? “Beat of my Heart” by Hilary Duff: “So I’m saying to you / I’ll always be …”. “Anytime … Continue reading song rhymes
This is the third post on the series of dictation. I will be using the same list of fifteen words and expressions that I included in the previous posts as an example. You will be using your own. I find that ten to fifteen items is an adequate number for this type of activity. Dictate this list of words and expressions at normal speed just … Continue reading dictation 3
This is the second post on the series of dictation. I will be using the same list of words and expressions as the one from the first post as an example. You can make your own. The basic aim here is to review vocabulary and do something with it for consolidation purposes. Here is the list of 15 off-the-cuff words and expressions that a group … Continue reading dictation 2
This is the first post of a series of three on dictations. There are many reasons not to do dictations in the language classroom and there are also many other reasons to engage learners in dictation activities. I believe that if the dictation is an end in itself, even though it may still have its benefits, we might as well use our time more wisely … Continue reading dictation 1
