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Teach Conditional 3 Creatively with These Fun Activities - Ready Made Lesson

on February 19, 2018

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Why Grammar? Many Job Applications Rejected due to Poor Grammar in English Speaking Countries

London’s Evening Standard has recently been running a campaign to improve literacy in London. It has published a series of reports that highlight the capital’s poor literacy rates which affect the population from primary school children to disenfranchised school leavers through to recent graduates new to the corporate world. The paper suggests that the British education system is failing to equip our children with the fundamental basic skills to help them enter the job market. This ....

MIND MAPS IN EFL CLASSROOMS – A POWERFUL TOOL

Do you use mind maps in your everyday activities in the classroom? I do. I have never stopped using them since I discovered how helpful they are both for my students and me. I keep adding new applications. Instead of writing long columns and lists or confusing explanations, my students and I create spider diagrams – we just need a single sheet of paper or a computer image instead of a lot of pages. What are mind maps? Mind maps are a visual way of taking notes. They are an innovative tool in education, a mighty graphic technique that explains relations between concepts and ideas linked to one central topic. They are a great way of gathering and organizing ideas. They work the way our brain does, so a mind map is a translation of what’s in our mind into a visual picture. They help us organize and understand information faster and better. How can teachers use mind maps? There are several ways teachers can use mind maps. They can use them for their own planning and

Discover The Skit Kit for English Classes : Activity for Creating Stories, Skits and Dialogues

The Skit Kit is an activity for creating skits, creating stories or creating dialogues. Students are given an envelope with the Skit Kit cards. In groups students have to make up a story, make up a dialogue or make up a skit. It's pretty simple but fun and effective for teaching English in real situations. Here are the Skit Kit cards: Animals Food Numbers People Transport Weather Colors Nature Objetcs Places Verbs The activity : - Break the cards up with one or two of each of the cards in an envelope. If you print all the sets, you should be able to make 10-12 sets with 12-15 cards in one envelope. - Distribute one set to each group of students (2-5 per group.) - To start have the students take just a few cards out of the envelope and explain that they will need to make a story using all of the vocabulary. - Allow the students time to make a story and encourage them to a

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