Articles tagged ‘TEFL Games’
Teaching A Bunch Of Words In A Box
By Katie | December 17th, 2007 |
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I went through my CELTA and learned about providing a context that allows students to deduce the meanings of new words. There’s also the spiel about genuine communication: don’t ask students to fill five minutes talking about a picture to demonstrate their competence, ask Student A to describe the picture only she can [...]
Christmas In TEFL
By Katie | December 4th, 2007 | 2 Comments »
The holiday season is just around the corner…or was it that corner I passed three blocks ago? I’m terrible with directions, so I’m really not sure, but wherever or whenever it is, the holiday season comes with several important questions:
Where are you going?
Lots of EFL teachers will return “home”, meaning back to their country [...]
Activities For Revising Or Practicing Tenses
By Katie | November 27th, 2007 | Add a Comment »
In my experience, as long as you plan well, it’s fairly easy to present tenses but much harder to find good communicative practice. You can present present perfect without talking, you can teach past continuous without your left shoe (and don’t get me wrong, students will enjoy this!) but you don’t need a drawn-out [...]
eslHQ Makeover
By Katie | October 16th, 2007 | 2 Comments »
eslHQ has a new look. Check out my original review of the site for the basics – and a summary of some of the reasons I think it’s cool – and read on right here for the latest.
One change is that the best discussions from the forums are now featured on the main page, [...]
Learn Each Others’ Names Or Else!
By Katie | September 13th, 2007 | Add a Comment »
I’m not usually an advocate of violence, nor would I like to imagine the TEFL Logue as some kind of cookbook for student abuse. So I’ll distance myself from the activity I’m about to present by letting you know that it was a Belgian colleague who either came up with it or passed it [...]
Pangrams And Spoonerisms: Adapting English Language Trivia For Class
By Katie | August 24th, 2007 | Add a Comment »
There were some fun English language trivia in The Daily Mail. I would preface this by saying: In a class with a syllabus to cover and limited time, I would probably use these only as fillers, or as some fun but still English-related cooler after students have just finished working intensively.
The first page – [...]
Fun With Dictation
By Katie | August 14th, 2007 | 4 Comments »
It doesn’t sound like a very nice activity, first of all because, you know, Stalin and his ilk bring an unpleasant connotation to dictating and such, but even its normal teaching meaning, “dictation” smacks of the past. A traditional schoolmarm reading out a long speech for students to copy down word for word, to [...]
In Defense Of TEFL Games
By Katie | July 10th, 2007 | 6 Comments »
“Are your students there to have fun, or are they there to learn?”
I’ve heard this criticism leveled against TEFL games more than once, and in addition to my post on Is TEFL Just Entertainment, would like to have another shot at countering it. The fact is, learning and having fun are not mutually exclusive, [...]
eslHQ: Time For A TEFL Logue Review!
By Katie | June 24th, 2007 | 4 Comments »
I have to say it is unfortunate that it has taken me this long to check out the excellent eslHQ. What’s so great about it? Basically, it’s full of practical information and fun activities – and easy to navigate to boot. The forums deserve a specific mention as well: they are quite [...]
Capitalizing On Gameshow Concepts In Class: TEFL Games
By Katie | June 6th, 2007 | 3 Comments »
If you haven’t heard the big news: Bob Barker of The Price Is Right filmed his last episode today. He’s 83. I’ve never been a big follower (which you might find hard to believe after my recent posts on television generally and Lost in particular) but as an animal lover and former shelter [...]
