A couple of weeks ago I had a short exchange on Twitter about what to do the first day after vacation. I was thought “Ooh, I know this one!” For me there’s only one activity to do after a vacation or weekend and that’s to talk about what you did. Think about it- what do …
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I made a collaborative slide activity for creating sentences. Students drag the cards onto the slide to create different sentences. It’s a round about way to talk about grammar. Once the students get all done- the different colored cards can help facilitate a discussion about grammar. What do you notice about all of the red …
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I’ve played verb battleship for years and it was always a bit of a frustrating experience because it always took at least 20 minutes to set up the boards and explain how it worked. I can’t even say why I kept doing it, except I guess I liked all the practice it gave using the négatif and I was …
I was out wandering the Internet a few weeks ago, when I came upon musicuentos.com’s Homework Choices and I said, “OMG, I need that.” I was looking for something in my college class to get them to have some other cultural experiences. I’ve tried different tactics in the past and most were not as successful as I …
Two weeks ago at my Instructional Coach training, the trainer had us do an amazingly simple partner activity. We divided a sticky into four quadrants and in each one wrote a word: Winter, Summer, Fall, Spring then we had to stand up and find a partner for each square. We wrote the name of that …
I am always up for some good number practice. In my perfect lesson plan there would be some attention to numbers every day- I just feel like students always need more practice. Of course, there’s a ton of ways for students to practice listening to numbers, but not so many for them to practice speaking …
I love Google Slides because you can use it as a whiteboard and the whole class can participate. (Read: never again spend hours copying, cutting and sorting only to have someone lose one card and not be able to fully participate. Oh wait, students can’t lose these because they’ll be saved in the Google!) I …
My favorite feature of Google Slides is that you can use them for everything else besides delivering content. I’ve made a Google Slide deck for Bingo. Share it with students as “make a copy for each student” in Google Classroom and play away. Directions are on the first slide. Click on the link and it …
A few weeks ago I was about to do an activity where I knew I was going to push students to expand their answers (Angelina Jolie is a better actress because …..) that it got me thinking about ways we can challenge students to do than just respond with yes or no; because in addition to …
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