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Learning through games and activities has consistently proved itself to have been a valuable part of teacher’s armoury. Being able to introduce an element of competition or fun into what might otherwise be a rather dreary lesson topic has proved a boon for both teacher and student alike. (see article “Gamification and ESL” )  Making use of online resources such as Kahoot etc, captures the interest and makes the learning fun. Nowhere is this more important than in the last few weeks of the school year, when the natural tendency to look forward to the upcoming holidays distracts from the necessity of learning.  The following are some activities that can engage the students and make the lesson both fruitful and fun. 

Music has, since time immemorial, been a fundamental teaching tool. From the earliest rhymes and rythyms heard from our mother’s embrace or croaking songs from our father’s arms, music has seemingly found it’s way to stimulate our memories and tickle our desire for learning more. Before literacy and the advent of the written word, the […]

As teachers we have big challenges in front of us such as finding diverse materials, engaging students, dealing with current affairs, involving teenagers outside the classroom and many more… An interesting and innovative solution is working with podcasts. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4-Cv5Nu-Uss&feature=emb_logo Podcasts have a lot of potential for language teachers. First of all they are authentic. They […]

Teachers are always looking for authentic texts for their students and newspapers provide the best, widest and most versatile tool to teach with authentic material. First of all, newspapers are much more updated than any course book, secondly they give the possibility to speak and work on every single possible topic from science to football, […]

“To travel is to make a journey, a movement through space. Possibly this journey is epic in scale, taking the traveller to the other side of the world or across a continent, or up a mountain; possibly, it is more modest in scope, and takes place within the limits of the traveller’s own country or […]

If 28 million people harvest their crops on Farm Ville every day and over 5 million people in the world play videogames for 45 hours a week, why can’t we use some elements of video games for educational purpose? As Werbach & Hunter state, gamification is a technique based on using “game elements and game […]