Advent Calendar 2020

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24 Days of Teaching – Day 4

Rumpelstiltskin: A Modern Retelling Today it’s fairy tale day. When looking for a text on auditioning I found this beautiful modern adaptation of the Brother Grimm fairy tale Rumpelstiltskin on British Council Learning English for Teens. The text is level B 1 and I used it in my year 6 group (second year of English…

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24 Days of Teaching – Day 3

Zoom Gossip This very creative speaking exercise I created two days ago and I personally love it! My students also gave it a thumbs up. I’ve created jpgs of the instructions, which you’ll find attached. I did this exercise with my level B2/C1 students. Maybe you can adapt it to a more reduced version for…

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24 Days of Teaching – Day 2

Small group exercise: „Who is most likely to…“ questions I’ve just finished my Business English class with level B2/C1 students and used the ‚Who is most likely to..“ game as a conversation starter. It was a group of 6 participants, which was the perfect group size for this exercise. The participants were colleagues, who know…

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24 Days of Teaching – Day 1

4 Days of Teaching This Advent Calendar is for all my teacher colleagues who have kept education alive through this very trying time! My idea was to post a worksheet I’ve created or a teaching idea I came up with this past year for 24 days leading up to Christmas. And this is Day 1.…