Category Archives: Fab YL ideas

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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The last vocab test of the year

Posted on 23/12/2015 by fabenglishteacher

What sort of teacher gives a test on the last lesson of term? A very mean one, that’s who! However I’ve never had any complaints about this one, and the results are usually pretty good!   

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Pin the nose on the reindeer

Posted on 22/12/2015 by fabenglishteacher

I found this idea on twitter (sorry, can’t remember where), the pupils loved it!   

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Christmas crafts and language ideas

Posted on 01/12/2015 by fabenglishteacher

Our primary teacher made these wonderful snowmen with her class: You can see how to do it on : Not wanting to be left out I jumped in on the act and the students drew their snowmen (with the right … 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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The hungry cockroach

Posted on 16/10/2015 by fabenglishteacher

This idea has everything I love; storytelling, different forms of student production, encouraging imagination, and it’s simple. Just get three pieces of paper, overlap each of them about a couple of inches and then fold, hey presto a groovy book shape. … 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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Webinar review – Charles Hadfield : Creative Grammar IATEFL

Posted on 12/07/2015 by fabenglishteacher

Another advantage of being an IATEFL member is being able to snuggle down of an afternoon and watch a webinar whenever I’ve got the time and inclination. I’d been meaning to watch this one for a while and was pleased … Continue reading →

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Activating Language

Posted on 08/06/2015 by fabenglishteacher

Another quick idea on how to literally warm up students’ language, simply give them a pen each and create a wordmap:   

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Recycling vocabulary

Posted on 26/05/2015 by fabenglishteacher

Teaching young learners involves a constant search for new ideas on reusing vocabulary in class.  I try and start every lesson by asking students to recall words from last lesson, today I wrote up the words they called out and … Continue reading →

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