Category Archives: Fab YL ideas

Social Distanced teaching

Posted on 07/06/2020 by fabenglishteacher

I wrote recently about the challenges of post-confinement teaching and promised you some ideas. They’ve taken a while coming, things haven’t been easy, as you’ve probably guessed; no handouts, no group or pair work (without students yelling at each other … Continue reading →

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Paper Chains – an ELT activity

Posted on 24/11/2019 by fabenglishteacher

Not just for Christmas decorations – although why not, if you use festive colours! Cut up a pile of rectangular pieces of coloured paper – say 15cm x 5cm and write a word on each one, you can use them … Continue reading →

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A listening (drawing) & writing activity

Posted on 04/03/2019 by fabenglishteacher

I have this brilliant student called Aurelien, actually I have lots of brilliant students but this boy often comes up with ideas that I use in class or share with other students. The other day Aurelien and his partner came … Continue reading →

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Things to do with a paper clip

Posted on 31/01/2019 by fabenglishteacher

You’ve probably seen activities like this before, as many things as you can think of to do with a cabbage, a brick etc. Apparently (or so I tell my students!) NASA use this creativity test in their selection process, I … Continue reading →

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Great games for lessons

Posted on 01/10/2018 by fabenglishteacher

All too often when we talk about games in language lessons we mean some “fun” way of practising the present perfect for with a dice or a board for example, I’m not sure all my students are convinced by this! … Continue reading →

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#ELT Project Ideas for teens

Posted on 30/08/2018 by fabenglishteacher

  Write a letter – last year we wrote a letter to the queen, who replied. This year we wrote to Harry, who apparently has been to busy to answer. So next year, rather than write one letter from the … Continue reading →

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10 things to do when you finish the coursebook

Posted on 01/05/2018 by fabenglishteacher

I don’t want to rub it in but we have less than two months of school left and that time is filled with school trips, bank holidays, exams etc. This means we’re arriving at the time when we get to … Continue reading →

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Learning with Lego

Posted on 08/03/2018 by fabenglishteacher

The exams had just finished and I’d promised we would play in class today, and we did – but we learnt too. So, I gave each pair the same 5 pieces of lego, they don’t need to be the same … Continue reading →

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Vocabulary Games

Posted on 13/02/2018 by fabenglishteacher

Two teams (or more), choose a cool name for your team, then give the students 3 minutes to note down as many things as possible that: are yellow have 6 letters can be found in my pocket smell nice Rhyme … Continue reading →

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Bloomifying “Giraffes can’t dance”

Posted on 24/11/2017 by fabenglishteacher

If you don’t know this amazing book then read it immediately, it’s fab! I recently gave a presentation on using Bloom’s taxonomy in storytelling so I thought I should practice a little what I preach.   Remember: Lower level skills … Continue reading →

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