Adverbs of Frequency Activity Module. Worksheet and Board Game.
Here's a quick lesson plan that aims to give students a chance to ask and answer questions using frequency adverbs.
Letter From Nashville — Promoting the Idea that Great Teaching is Possible — Before Deploying an Exit Ticket — Part 7
Exit Tickets must be cultivated as a meaningful element of your instruction or they should not be deployed at all.
Video Literacy — Scorsese Interview
Here, Martin Scorsese is eloquent in discussing the importance of film literacy but I want to take what he says about film literacy a bit further.
FRAMING PAIR AND GROUP WORK (GAMIFICATION): THE CHRIS-ROGER TEMPLATE
In spite of what the term might suggest, gamification is not fundamentally about fun. Gamifying a classroom activity can, as a side effect, make the activity fun, the point is to create a sense of purpose and urgency around activities which would otherwise be open-ended. For this blog post, I am going to present an Activity Module that I think is an excellent example of gamification.
Family/Relationships Activity Module
This lesson, incorporating the popular Japanese animated series' "Sazae San", is a great way to teach family & relationships vocabulary as well as a variety of related structures.
Mini Presentation Lesson “My Holiday”
This lesson is a short, simple speaking task for junior-high students. Students listen to a sample speech about a trip taken by their teacher, then make a similar speech in front of their classmates.
Activity Module: Teaching Gerunds and Infinitives
The lesson aims to introduce and practice infinitives and gerunds by introducing common phrasal verb and other common collocations.