Feed your brain with sleep

 Study…stud…stu…st…s…sl…sle…slee…sleep Well, it shouldn’t be like that, but the other way round. A good sleep enhances chances for more effective studying. Especially you, university candidates, who are starting your final year at school, balance your day properly and get enough sleep to increase classroom performance and exam results.Teens need about 9…

Last minute new school year crafts

Are you looking forward to the new school year? Well, perhaps not, but you may enjoy making crafts. So, take some of your restlessness away and use these last few days before schools start creatively. Here are some ideas how: Which one did you like best? Why? Which one is…

Find your learning style with an Edutopia quiz

This is an interesting and quick to do quiz from Edutopia that helps you find your learning style, that is in what ways you learn better. Here’s the article:  What Is Your Learning Style? This quiz asks 24 questions and will take less than five minutes to complete. Try not to think…

What about Game-Based Learning?

There is an interesting article by Katie Lepi at http://www.edudemic.com/2013/08/game-based-learning-infographic/ which makes me really happy, because I really support playing games in the language classroom, although I don’t actually favour digital games over traditional ones. It’s the team spirit and eye to eye communication that makes the difference. Do you play games with…

Song, English practice, briefing on Internet addiction

  Watch the video, listen and fill in the missing lyrics. The correct answers are further down this page. Internet Junkie by Honor Finnegan. Woke up this morning quick as 1-2-3  There’s something’s out there just  __1__ for me  It’s like a world of __2__in an impossible world  Just __3__up the mac…

Are you your handwriting?

What does your handwriting reveal about you? Check this infographic and find out. LESSON PLAN IDEA We teachers can use this infographic with our students and have them comment on their own or each other’s handwriting after they have completed some writing task. The idea of analyzing personalities can make writing…

ENVIRONMENTAL FRIENDLY CONDITIONAL CLAUSES EXERCISE!

(Beijing in the smog) If you want to practice the Conditionals and learn some facts about pollution do the following exercises. EXERCISES When gasoline is burnt to power cars and trucks, it [produce] carbon monoxide. Carbon monoxide is harmful when it [concentrate] in great amounts. If the air in a…

CONDITIONAL CLAUSES

Refresh your knowledge on Conditional Clauses  by watching this presentation  (please click on the link below the presentation) or the following videos  or just take your time and check the rules below. Zero Conditional      Use it to talk about                    …

Trash knowledge

With summer coming to its end, it’s sad to play around some of the countless beautiful beaches in Greece and witness people not caring about proper disposal of their trash. Do you know how long it takes for some common types of trash to break down? Click here to do…

Sing your lesson! Sites for song based lesson plans.

There are plenty of reasons why we could use songs in the efl classroom; linguistic, cognitive, cultural, just to name a few. To me, the most important one is that songs provide a perfectly relaxing and intimate room for authentic language practice, that makes teaching and learning so much fun.…