Surely one of the most fascinating subjects for the language classroom is the subject of language itself. By that, I’m not referring to those all-too-familiar grammar explanations in which the teacher uses images of winning the lottery to explain the second conditional (we’ve all done it!) I am referring to the topics that might be […]
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21st century flux (activity worksheets)
February 18th, 2010 · 4 Comments
Tags: Lesson plans · Linguistics · Poetry
The third conditional (a lesson plan)
January 20th, 2010 · 16 Comments
Homer Simpson once said something along the lines of: “If God had wanted us to be vegetarians, he wouldn’t have made animals out of meat.”
This is the starting point for a lesson plan on the third conditional.
third-conditional.pdf
In the activity, students are given a homework task in which they have to use a search engine […]
Tags: Grammar · Learner-friendly corpora · Lesson plans · Third Conditional · Translation · Using search engines
More Mr Men and Little Misses
January 6th, 2010 · 12 Comments
Here is the end product of a lesson plan in which a group of adult learners created their own Mr Men and Little Miss characters:
The artists were: Ana, Carlos, Elena, Eva, Inés, Juana, Marián, Marta, Pilar, Silvia, Silvia and Verónica. As well as making a drawings of their character, everyone had to write a short […]
Tags: Adjectives · Lesson plans · Student drawings
The Venus of Willendorf (a lesson plan)
October 7th, 2009 · 1 Comment
the-venus-of-willendorf.pdf
The Venus of Willendorf (below) is an icon of prehistoric art. It is housed in the Museum of Natural History in Vienna. One day, a visitor to the museum asks a guide how old it is. The guide replies that it is 25 thousand years and 8 months old. The visitor is […]
Tags: Art · CLIL · Grammar · Lesson plans · Question forms · Student drawings
Mr Men book covers (a lesson plan)
May 11th, 2009 · 7 Comments
I found a site that allows you to download high resolution images of the Mr Men book covers (click here for link). Here are twelve.
Q: What do they have in common?
A: Their names all consist of 2-syllable adjectives.
A lesson plan that uses these images can be downloaded on pdf below.
mr-men-book-covers.pdf
Tags: Adjectives · Lesson plans
Baby gorilla drawings
April 18th, 2009 · 1 Comment
Burcu Akyol sent me some drawings from one of her classes. She asked her students to draw a man with a baby gorilla talking to a policeman in the street. Students were then asked to consider what was happening and create dialogs. This is a preparation stage for an activity from my new book (that’s […]
Tags: Lesson plans · Stories · Student drawings
