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Dealing With Teenagers’ Demotivation in The Classroom

16 de agosto de 2019

One of the biggest concerns among teachers who work with teenagers is that they seem to be demotivated most of the time. It’s often said that teenage students don’t participate in classes so enthusiastically or don’t show interest in the activities. While that may be true, it will rarely happen to the whole group. Even...Read More

Classroom Experiences, Classroom Management, Games, Lesson Ideas, Reflections about Education, Trends in ELT

motivation, pre-teens, teaching teenagers, teenagers, teens

The X Factor in Teaching Teens

16 de junho de 2019

by Henrique Zamboni

Have you ever changed your lesson plan (or part of it) halfway through due to students’ lack of engagement? And have you ever regretted changing it because students asked you to do something different in class? If you answered yes for both questions, you face the same dilemma that we do; which is how much...Read More

Classroom Experiences, Classroom Management, Games, Lesson Ideas, Reflections about Education

challenges, Classroom experiences, creativity, reflection, teaching, teachingteens, teenagers

Using Superheroes in Class

16 de abril de 2019

by Henrique Zamboni

Before we start, click on the player above and enjoy this song while you enjoy your reading! I guarantee it will make the experience a lot more fun! 🙂 Some years ago, acclaimed director Steven Spielberg said he thought the superhero film genre would die out. Much has been said about the possible downfall of...Read More

Classroom Experiences, Games, Lesson Ideas, Resources, Vocabulary

classroom activity, creativity, teaching, teaching teenagers, teenagers, younger learners

Finding Common Ground Between Technology and Kinaesthetics

16 de dezembro de 2018

by Henrique Zamboni

If you have been teaching teens for the past years you have probably noticed how attached they are to their mobiles or tablets. To say that they love technology is an understatement. Playing video games, watching TV series and films or listening to music are some of the usual activities they perform in their free...Read More

Classroom Experiences, Educational Technology, Games, Lesson Ideas, Resources, Technology

#kinaesthetics, classroom activity, creativity, EdTech, technology, teenagers, teens

Sing, sing a song – 8 ways of using songs in the ELT classroom

5 de abril de 2017

by Natália Guerreiro

Late in February a BrELTer asked what she could do with songs in ELT lessons. My comment there was huge (sorry!) because I simply love using songs in language learning, both as a teacher and as a student. In fact, I have forgotten most of the French I’ve been taught except for the French in songs...Read More

Games, Pronunciation, Resources

Music, songs

Gamification – A way into engaging students more

7 de abril de 2016

by Beatriz Meneguetti

Let’s start by defining gamification, which according to Oxford Dictionary is the application of typical elements of game playing to other areas of activity. In our case, it’s the is the concept of applying game mechanics and game design techniques to engage and motivate students to achieve their goals. Games have existed for a very...Read More

Games, Reflections about Education

Engaging students, Games, Gamification

Solutionism in ELT: magic bullet or malady?

14 de janeiro de 2015

by Damian Willians

One of the books that made the biggest impression on me last year was Evgeny Morozov’s To Save Everything, Click Here: Technology, Solutionism and the Urge to Fix Problems that Don’t Exist. In it, he describes the rise of tech companies into all-pervasive areas of life, their inherent solutionism, and the threats this process poses to society...Read More

Educational Technology, Games, Technology

And that my friend is what we call closure…

1 de dezembro de 2014

by Michele Schwertner

As we come to the end of the year, our classes are also about to finish. Hence, the time for us teachers to start planning the end of the semester has come. We end up getting so busy organizing reviews, writing tests, testing and assessing students, writing reports and/or report cards, providing students with feedback...Read More

Classroom Experiences, Classroom Management, Games, Lesson Ideas, Resources

classroom activity, Classroom experiences, creativity, game, motivation

Revisiting ELT Mantras #7: ‘Real-world’ activitities

14 de setembro de 2014

by Damian Willians

Humans (like all intelligent hunters) seem innately disposed to notice things which move rather than things which stand still. Cook, 2000 Don’t move a muscle. by Chris Isherwood CC-BY-2.0 It is often argued that the English language class should try to emulate the ‘real world’ as much as possible. Tasks and activities should reflect what...Read More

Games, Language Acquisition, Lesson Ideas, Teacher Development

EFL, elt, elt mantras, esl, Language Play, td

Let ‘Hangman’ Hang

3 de setembro de 2014

by Dominic Walters

To start off with, let me just say that I have never ever liked ‘Hangman’. You know, the game where you have guess the word(s) by calling out letters of the alphabet before the man is hung up on a scaffold. It is not because the act of hanging runs contrary to my political sensibilities...Read More

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classroom games, hangman, vocabulary

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