Category Archives: Fab ideas

Tweet what you’ve learnt

Posted on 07/10/2016 by fabenglishteacher

I like doing this activity at the end of a unit, I ask all the students to write a tweet (140 characters max!) about what they learnt, what they found difficult or a question they have concerning the work they … Continue reading →

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Lego oral activity

Posted on 13/06/2016 by fabenglishteacher

My students really enjoyed this activity, although they did find it challenging. You need: -a blindfold per pair or per student if possible. – some lego, about seven pieces per student, and the same pieces for each pair. Instructions: -One … Continue reading →

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What would you do if….?

Posted on 20/05/2016 by fabenglishteacher

Revising conditionals is a great opportunity to ask some amazing questions, and as usual it’s the students who have all the best ideas…

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What I learnt at IATEFL 2016

Posted on 17/04/2016 by fabenglishteacher

There’s nothing like a few days with several hundred English teachers to motivate me & get the ideas flowing. To ask my students “STOP-START-CONTINUE”, what do you want me to stop/start/continue doing? Birmingham is a great place for a conference: … Continue reading →

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Story Box 

Posted on 01/02/2016 by fabenglishteacher

The other day I was talking to a colleague who said “there’s nothing new in efl”. I didn’t agree, and told her about the wonderfully original story boxes we have created with my primary class…    They look like a … Continue reading →

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Ready, Steady, Cook!

Posted on 17/01/2016 by fabenglishteacher

Ingredients: various utensils nicked from home a bunch of empty cartons from the recycling box a pile of toy fruit & veg a pinch of suspense lashings of students Method: 1.Explain to students how the TV programme Ready, Steady, Cook … Continue reading →

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Having Fun with Hamlet

Posted on 10/12/2015 by fabenglishteacher

Shakespeare can be a challenge with teens, they often have pretty fixed ideas about how difficult/boring/old-fashioned his work is. So here’s how we “did” Hamlet: Lesson 1: Imagine how you would react in the following situations- Your dad died a … Continue reading →

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Thanksgiving -a time for giving thanks

Posted on 23/11/2015 by fabenglishteacher

   The great thing about teaching English is that we can take advantage of any occasion to talk about values, and appreciation. The sheet was downloaded from http://www.busyteacher.com – thank you!    Homework is to take home this sheet and … Continue reading →

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Delicious adjectives and disgusting beans

Posted on 01/11/2015 by fabenglishteacher

With my upper level class I often try and expand their already impressive vocabulary with synonyms, and this exercise was a great (and very easy!) way of doing that. After having looked at words to describe a food in general, … Continue reading →

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Start thinking about your last lesson already

Posted on 04/09/2015 by fabenglishteacher

Every Monday students find slips of paper waiting on their desks when they arrive and I encourage them to write about something great that happened over the last seven days. To be perfectly honest I don’t put them all in … Continue reading →

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