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24 Days of Teaching – Day 15

Compound Word Pictionary Sorry for the delay with this one! Yesterday was one of those stressful pre-Christmas days… The last week before Christmas is traditionally a week of watching fun movies in class or playing games. So as the ‚Drawing A Cartoon‘ exercise went so well (one of my 8th-graders wrote: „It was so much…

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24 Days of Teaching – Day 14

24 Days of Teaching – Day 14 A Christmas Letter I have just finished writing a Christmas letter to my favourite little American girl and her family and so I thought today’s lesson idea is simple. Ask your students to write a Christmas letter to their favourite person or to the ‚Christkind‘ in English. We…

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24 Days of Christmas – Day 13

Pet Peeves Language is first and foremost a means of communicating and connecting with other people and so teaching a language should also include how we communicate. While googling for communication exercises. I found this excellent list of exercises and games by psychologist Chatherine Moore, who is with PositivePsychology.com. Link to the list: https://positivepsychology.com/communication-exercises-for…/ One…

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24 Days of Teaching – Day 12

Christmas Disasters – Oh No! You Shouldn’t Have … Yesterday, I was giving my flat a pre-Christmas clean and put up the Christmas decoration. That’s why I’m late with Day 12. While putting up the lights with one of my cat getting ready to chew on the wire and the other eyeing that shiny Christmas…

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24 Days of Teaching – Day 11

What have you had ‚a pop at‘ during this crazy year? Well, whatever it was, I’m sure it was something online. Today you’ll find a listening comprehension worksheet on the BBC Learning English audio clip ‚Have a Pop‘ in their series ‚The English We Speak‘, where they explain different idioms, words, or phrases. My worksheet…

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24 Days of Teaching – Day 10

70 Great This or That Questions Television series or movie? Delivery or sit-down restaurant? Board games or card games? Video games or books? Car or truck? Bus or train? Paperback book or eBook? etc. With this classic American conversation game I started my online class today. I asked every participant – we were a small…

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24 Days of Christmas – Day 9

The Cartoon What better way to create a fun lesson than by combining picture description with doing a little bit of art and laughter? All you need for this exercise are two cartoons that are not too complex and fairly easy to draw. Pair up your students. Assign one cartoon to each student. Make sure…

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24 Days of Teaching – Day 8

Someone Did Something! Who? What? Where? When? Why? Creativity is an important life skill. It helps us establish new relationships between things, perceive different aspects of reality, take fresh perspectives, and it gives us the confidence and tools to solve problems or face the unknown. That is why integrating creative exercises in our teaching is…

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24 Days of Teaching – Day 7

Kids love criss-cross puzzles so why not do an oral one? This speaking exercise is like playing Taboo, but with a criss-cross puzzle. You just need to select words you want your students to revise, create a cross-word puzzle (link to puzzlemaker below), you don’t even need to create clues, just print out two copies…

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24 Days of Christmas – Day 6

Robotic Master Chef – Listening Comprehension & Guided Writing Isn’t this something we all need for Christmas? A robotic kitchen that treats us and our relatives to gourmet dishes from around the world. I hope this robotic kitchen also does the washing up! This listening comprehension & guided writing worksheet is perfect for German year10…

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