A pretty gross one today. Enough to put you off fast food. All activities based on the first 38 seconds of this Daily Dose… Activity 1: Before watching 0:00 – 0:38 Someone left a MacDonald’s hamburger in a closet for… Read More ›
Lesson Ideas
Daily Dose of Internet #6
Some more Daily Dosing… Activity 1: Watch from 0:00 – 0:16 Who is in the wrong here: The gorilla? The woman? The guide? The local authorities? Everyone? No-one? Activity 2: Watch from 0:00 – 0:16 This type of tourism is… Read More ›
Daily Dose of Internet #5
Some more Daily Dose springboards for you. Activity 1: Watch from 0:00 – 0:39 Write a short news report (150-200 words) for a local paper on this event. Possible titles: Fairground fiasco! Near-fatal fairground Activity 2: Watch from 0:00-0:39 Write… Read More ›
Daily Dose of Internet #4
Getting Venny today. Overall activity: Watch all clips. Step 1 – Make quick notes on each clip so you remember it. Examples: caterpillar screams hoverboard in city Step 2 – Add the videos to the diagram based on how you… Read More ›
Daily Dose of Internet #3
Some more Daily Dose activities! Pick one, run with it, see where it leads… Activity 1: *Avoid showing the name of the video!* Pause at 0:14 after the knock on the door. What happens next? Activity 2: Watch from 0:33… Read More ›
Daily Dose of Internet #2
Here are some more Daily Dose of Internet activities. Pick one you like, run with it, see what happens! Activity 1: play the video from the start. Pause for 15 seconds after each clip. Students … Rate each video from… Read More ›
Daily Dose of Internet #1
I love Daily Dose of Internet. I feel like adding some ‘Daily Dose Springboard’ posts. These vids are a nice resource for a bit of speaking practice at the start/end of a lesson but can also be exploited much more…. Read More ›
Poetry lesson: What do you hear?
Here’s a short poetry task that worked well with YLs and teens. It’s based on a poem from A Nest Full of Stars by James Berry. Before you ask, no. I haven’t suddenly gone all NLP. Aims Create a… Read More ›
EAL presentation tasks
I’ve been teaching an intensive English course this term. It works out (online) at about 8 hours per week, would have been a lot more had we not been back in lockdown. Seven students, Japanese, between 12 and 14 years… Read More ›
Timesaver: Conversation starters
Here’s a quick fix warmer while you’re waiting for all students to arrive in your online class. I googled ‘conversation starters’ the other day and found this list of questions 225 starter questions on gifts.com. I pasted these questions into… Read More ›
ELT Planning 