Dear Teachers

"Different kind of love in every corner"

In "The Tumbleweed Invasion", the students:
🪴🌻 revise and learn some new vocabulary related to plants
🎧🔍 listen to a video about tumbleweeds to gather both general and specific information
💻🔈 chat with Alex to find out how he managed to solve the tumbleweed invasion of his house
🔈🤔 finally engage in a speaking or writing task to discuss some alternative endings!
https://onthesamepageelt.wordpress.com/2024/02/28/the-tumbleweed-invasion

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Verb Race: a fully customisable game board to practise irregular verbs. https://www.lauracandler.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/pasttenseverbs.pdf

A useful worksheet to help students describe people’s faces. Check the teacher’s notes at the bottom for ideas! https://myenglishimages.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/Funny-Faces-Brochure.pdf

Stare at the dots for 30 seconds and then look at the ceiling!

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Lexical resources

This lesson by Bhavna Gupta, based around a short text and a video, helps to raise awareness about climate action and encourages learners to use their critical thinking skills and creativity.
https://thelearningsutra.com/shapeourfuture/

Classroom assessments for a differentiated responsive classroom
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Wordshake is a fun vocabulary game in which students have 3 minutes to make as many words as they can from 16 letters. (A2/B1)
https://learnenglishteens.britishcouncil.org/study-break/games/wordshake

In this activity, the students learn to write simple definitions of nouns, blending a structured approach with a touch of creative writing and wordplay!
https://onthesamepageelt.wordpress.com/2023/11/14/defining-nouns/

The universal character strengths - get students to identify their strengths and weaknesses https://www.visualcapitalist.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/Character-Strengths_03.jpeg

Bringing closure to a lesson.
https://onthesamepageelt.wordpress.com/2016/08/31/bringing-closure-to-a-lesson-adding-student-choice/

A series of activity ideas to use with "Wonders of Street View", a fun website that shares weird situations and places from Google Street View. 🙂
https://onthesamepageelt.wordpress.com/2023/01/29/wonders-of-street-view-some-activity-ideas/

10 simple and practical pronunciation activities.
https://teflzoneracheltsateri.wordpress.com/2020/07/24/10-simple-and-practical-pronunciation-activities/

By The TEFL Zone

১. হার্ভার্ড বিশ্ববিদ্যালয়ের লাইব্রেরিতে ৪ খানা বই আছে যা মানুষের চামড়া দিয়ে বাঁধাই করা।

২. মাথাপিছু বই পাঠের দিকে শীর্ষে হলো আইসল্যান্ড।

৩. বই পড়া মানুষের অ্যালজাইমার রোগে আক্রান্ত হবার সম্ভাবনা অপেক্ষাকৃত কম।

৪. ব্রাজিলের কারাগারে প্রতি একটি বই পাঠের জন্য ৪ দিন সাজা মওকুফ হয়।

৫. ভার্জিনিয়া উলফ তাঁর সব বই দাঁড়িয়ে লিখেছিলেন।

৬. সবচেয়ে চুরি হয় যে বইটি সেটা হলো বাইবেল।

৭. রুজভেল্ট প্রতিদিন গড়ে ১টি বই পড়তেন।

৮. শুধু দাবা খেলার উপরই ২০০০০+ বই আছে।

৯. ভিক্টর হুগোর লা মিজারেবল বইয়ে একটি বাক্য আছে যেখানে ৮২৩টি শব্দ ।

১০. হারি (Hurry), অ্যাডিকশন (Addiction) এসব শব্দ শেক্সপিয়ারের আবিস্কার।

১১. নিউইয়র্ক পাবলিক লাইব্রেরীর সব বই একসাথে লাইন করে রাখলে ৮ মাইল লম্বা হবে।

১২. লেভ তলস্টয়ের বিশাল উপন্যাস ওয়ার এন্ড পিসের পান্ডুলিপি তাঁর স্ত্রী হাতে লিখে ৭ বার কপি করেছিলেন।

১৩. নোয়াহ ওয়েবস্টার তাঁর প্রথম ডিকশনারী লিখতে সময় নিয়েছিলেন মাত্র ৩৬ বছর।

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In London, there's a woman who goes every day on the underground and sits on the platform just to listen to the announcement recorded by her husband in 1950.

Margaret McCollum after the death of her husband Oswald Laurence, sits on the bench waiting to hear this recording that became one of London's most famous "Mind the gap"

In 2003, Oswald died leaving a huge void in Margaret's heart. So Margaret found a way to feel his presence closest.

After more than half a century, this voice was replaced by an electronic recording. Out of distress Margaret asked for this cassette tape from London transport company so she could continue listening to her husband's voice at home.

After becoming aware of the moving history, the company decided to restore the announcement at the stop near where Margaret lives,at the Embankment stop of Northern Line, where all passengers can listen today and hear Oswald Laurence's voice and to think that eternal love really exists.

Wonderful gesture by the authorities

Get the picture: using images and works of art to generate discussion and writing ideas.
http://artinspired.pbworks.com/w/page/13819563/Discussing%20Art

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15 post-reading activities.
https://onthesamepageelt.wordpress.com/2020/05/10/15-post-reading-activities/

Students use grammatical and lexical knowledge, context clues and comprehension skills to solve this puzzle and reconstruct the lyrics of “Don’t Get Me Wrong” (The Pretenders, 1986)
https://onthesamepageelt.wordpress.com/2017/03/28/dont-get-me-wrong/

Here's a grammar review board game for advanced learners.
https://reflectiveteachingreflectivelearning.com/2014/04/09/review-board-game-for-advanced-level-learners/

Students work on all four skills in this lesson based on Ray Bradbury's "All Summer in a Day".
https://onthesamepageelt.wordpress.com/2016/07/24/all-summer-in-a-day/

A violinist played for 45 minutes in the New York subway. A handful of people stopped, a couple clapped, and the violinist raised about $30 in tips.

No one knew this, but the violinist was Joshua Bell, one of the best musicians in the world. In that subway, Joshua played one of the most intricate pieces ever written with a violin worth 3.5 million dollars.

Two days before he played in the subway, Joshua Bell sold out a Boston theatre, and the seats averaged about $100.

The experiment proved that the extraordinary in an ordinary environment does not shine and is so often overlooked and undervalued.

There are brilliantly talented people everywhere who aren't receiving the recognition and reward they deserve. But once they arm themselves with value and confidence and remove themselves from an environment that isn’t serving them, they thrive and grow.

Your gut is telling you something. Listen to it if it's telling you where you are isn't enough!

Go where you are appreciated and valued.

Know Your Worth. ❤️

A board game to revise active to passive transformations around the topic of music and artists.

https://natalialzam.wordpress.com/2023/03/19/passive-voice-music-and-artists-board-game/

A thousand meanings it has

Jeopardylabs.com allows you to create jeopardy-style quizzes very easily. Make sure you check the search function for ready-to-go quizzes on virtually any topic, too!