Articles tagged ‘Jigsaw Activities’
The 420,000 Days Of Christmas
By Katie | December 29th, 2007 |
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None of that twelve days business here at the TEFL Logue. To round out the year, here are a few numerical links. What does 420,000 stand for? I’m taking guesses as comments - once I get a few creative ones, I’ll give a clue!
On the first day of TEFL, you might want to [...]
TEFL Speaking Activity: The Crossword Puzzle
By Katie | February 27th, 2007 | Add a Comment »
I heart using crossword puzzles in class; not the kind where students just read and fill in words, but the jigsaw activity variety: A has half the words, B has the other half and both have to think up and give clues or definitions so the other can guess the missing words.
This type of [...]
TEFL Humor: Reading Satire In Class
By Katie | February 14th, 2007 | 1 Comment »
According to this Guardian article, laughter in the classroom is a good thing, and that won’t come as a great surprise to anyone in TEFL. I recently incorporated three articles from The Onion into a very high level in-company speaking class: here’s how.
First we spoke about humor in general – share a funny situation [...]
Online Gambling As A TEFL Conversation Topic
By Katie | February 2nd, 2007 | Add a Comment »
I was working with a group of four higher-ups at one company, three of them members or heads of different boards, one of them…not a member of a board. Different people talk in different proportions all the time, and these people were all quite open and friendly and relaxed, not to mention well-educated and [...]
